Arabic hypocoristics and the status of the consonantal root

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 512-520

  Davis, Stuart ^a   Zawaydeh, Bushra Adnan ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; Hypocoristic; Root; Semitic; Word based morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 26244437688     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438901750372540     Document Type: Article

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