Journal of Semitic Studies LIX/1, 2014. — 30 The authors investigate the transmission history of two remarkable poetic compositions in the Modern South Arabian language Soqotri (the island Soqotra, Yemen). First published by D.H. Müller in the beginning of the twentieth century, they were recorded and studied anew by Naumkin more than seventy years later and then jointly by the...
Hadhramout University, 2009. — p. 311-332. The issues addressed in this paper are those nominal expressions that have been discussed under the heading of “noun phrases without nouns” by Matthew Dryer in his recent review of noun phrase structure (Dryer 2007), where he surveys noun phrases without a nominal head such as adjectives functioning as noun phrases by themselves (see (1)...
University of Aden, Soqotri Dialectology, 2003. — 13 p. Together with the other Modern South Arabian languages, Soqotri is related to the most ancient languages spoken in the Arabian peninsula. The study of Soqotri dialects has allowed to confirm or infirm many hypotheses concerning the evolution of the Semitic languages, and it has underlined the originality of Soqotri within the...
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