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- Title
The Apparent Lambdacism of Eblaite and Eblaite Word Accent.
- Authors
Peust, Carsten
- Abstract
A peculiarity of Eblaite spelling, unparalleled in the other Semitic languages, is the interchange between l and r. This phenomenon is examined based on the glosses of the so-called 'Vocabolario di Ebla' (VE). It is argued that the interchange pertains to the graphic rather than the phonological level, and that, at least in manuscript B of VE, the interchange is subject to a precise phonological conditioning: /r/ is spelled r when occurring as a geminate or as the onset of a stressed syllable, and l elsewhere. This hypothesis, in turn, provides first insights into Eblaite word accent.
- Subjects
SYRIA; EBLAITE language; SEMITIC languages; PHONOLOGY; STRESS (Linguistics); LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Assyriologie & Vorderasiatische Archäologie, 2014, Vol 104, Issue 2, p135
- ISSN
0084-5299
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/za-2014-0012