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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I suppose you have modern Aramaic on your list? Such as Turoyo -no/-at (1SG/2SG) and more: ko-domaxno 'I'm sleeping', dəmxat 'you're sleeping'. Cf. Tur. ono 'I', hat 'you', cf. Syriac eno and att.

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It's not that far. But I'd be surprised to see large effects, especially in the direction Canaanite > Akkadian. We also have to consider Amorite ...

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

True, but historically impossible. The word raḫāṣum is attested already in the Old Babylonian period, i.e. *before* it came into contact with Canaanite (which by the way borrowed more from Akkadian than vice versa). Source: Akkadisches Handwörterbuch, vol. 2.

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

*rḥṣ̌ is actually a veeery old root in Semitic, cf. Akkadian raḫāṣu(m) 'to flood, wash'.

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Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

In al-Awabi Arabic (Oman), the prefix vowel of imperfect verbs is generally determined by the place of articulation of the first root consonant: yi- if C1 is coronal or emphatic [!] yiḍḥuk, yiḍrub, yiṣbaġ, yiṭlub

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

A friend of mine, which originally introduced herself as Anna, uses her actual name now, too

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Universitat de Barcelona? Felt like King's Landing

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Furthermore, I'd be glad to have another word for the Semitic language family. People sometimes get confused when I tell them I'm a Semiticist and work on Hebrew, Arabic, and other related languages. 😅

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Talay, Shabo (2014), “The Mesopotamian-Levantine Dialect Continuum”. In: T. Davidovich, A. Lahdo and T. Lindquist (eds.): From Tur Abdin to Hadramawt. Semitic Studies Festschrift in Honour of Bo Isaksson on the occasion of his retirement. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2014. S. 179 – 188.

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Jan-Martin Wiarda @jmwiarda.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

"Nicht mehr internationale Spitze" Jedes Jahr wird weltweit überprüft, wie frei Wissenschaftler arbeiten können. Jetzt ist Deutschland beim "Academic Freedom Index" aus der Spitzengruppe gefallen. Was steckt dahinter? Ein Interview. Im Tagesspiegel & im #WiardaBlog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/03/13/n...

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It was a pleasure to listen to your talk in Barcelona!

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It has been a great DGfS conference last week in Mainz! I hope I could show that Syriac can contribute to our understanding of cyclic phonology. #DGfS47 #DGfS2025

Cyclic derivation of Syriac keṯbaṯxōn 'she wrote to you all'.

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Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

the real outlier is #Romanian, which, I think, doesn't have a single example of such prothetic vowels in inherited #Latin words. which points either to early diatopic variation in this regard or to different word-initial phonotactic tendencies.

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

More than 40 downloads in just 2 days! So far and by far, the most downloaded paper of the volume. A big thank you to all who've read (or are reading) the paper! revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl... #linguistics #academicsky

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

A picture from today just a few minutes ago. 📍Berlin

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Haidar Abboud @lawzinaj.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

(1) How did Syriac end up with different 1s, 2ms perfect forms ket̠bet̠ vs. kt̠ab̠t, if the ancestors are katabt-u, katabt-a? (2) Why does 3fs show /e/ if the ancestor is katab-at? (3) Does 2fs show deletion of a *long* -ī (*katab-tī)? 1pl can be kt̠ab̠n, where's the -ā of *-nā?

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

You can see that word-final vowel shortening and vowel elision stand in a "feeding" relationship.

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Good question! In Biblical Aramaic, it's precisely what you'd expect: kiþvaþ! In Syriac, reanalysis desoftens the 3rd radical. In a synchronic picture, the -et/-aþ morpheme must be extended by the floating feature [-continuant].

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

1. Wordfinal vowel shortening and spirantisation: /ka.ta.bū/ -> [ka.þa.vu] 2. Stress: moraic trochee L<-R: /ka.þa.vu/ -> [ka.('þa.vu) 3. Vowel elision: /ka.('þa.vu)/ -> [k.('þav)]

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

*ka.'ta.bu is what I'd do, yes. CVC & CVV equally attract stress. The emphaticus ending -ā is trimoraic in this approach.

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

That's the missing piece in the puzzle! 😃

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

It has some similarities to the talk at the DOT 2022 in Berlin. But now, I can see the full picture 😅. By the way, this thread was a great opportunity for me, to prepare myself for Thursday 🙏🏽

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Maybe even ['ekal] 'he ate' <- /'kal/ <- /'akal/. (Sorry for don't typing begadkefat.)

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

There is also no evidence for a rule of vowel raising (a -> e / ??). We *could* say that raising is part of the morpheme. But thus is very ad hoc. Instead the identity of epenthetic vowels in Syriac as [e] are well supported elsewhere. Historically -tu > -t > -et or 'eštā 'six' < *š(i)tā'. ...

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I adopted the "cycles" of Stratal OT (cf. Lexical Phonology & Morphology): Stem level, Word level, Phrase level. The idea is: Both long vowels and coda consonants trigger syllable weight; place a moraic trochee from the right to left. This would falsely predict *katbat. ...

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This is repaired by epenthesis: k<e>tbát. Same with ketbét. This is THE topic of my presentation in a few days at the DGfS meeting: sites.google.com/view/variati...

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

For ketbet & ketbat, -et & -at are attached at a 2nd cycle, namely AFTER vowel reduction: 1. /katab/ -> [ktab]; 2. /ktab+at/ -> ketbat. Here, epenthetic <e> comes in. The first & unstressed /a/ is syncopated, which would produce an ungrammatical consonant cluster (ktbát). ...

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

... since there is a split in morphological cycles. In ktab(w) (3PL.M), it's 1 cycle. Here Syriac is like Levantine Arabic Arabic: long word-final vowels become short. But only in Syriac, these now-short vowels are regularly deleted. They reappear if suffixed: katbūn(y) 'they wrote to me'. ...

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

There was an early (random) loss of -u (1SG), resulting in *katabt. The complex coda has been resolved by epenthetic <e>: katabet. This e has been phonemicised so that it regularly attracted stress: *katabét - similar to *katabát (3SG.F). Syriac has a special treatment of these 2 suffixes ...

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

We in Denmark in 2023: an elderly man in only broken English with a French accent, the rest with fluent English but with a slight German accent. Me speaking both English & Norwegian, which works fine with Danes. 3 middle European phenotypes, 1 middle Eastern phenotype. We caused some astonishment^^

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It's finally there! My first publication as a single author: "Is there really root-and-pattern morphology?" revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl... Arabic, (no!) roots & patterns, theoretical phonology and morphology, it's all there! #Arabic - #linguistics - #langsky - #phonology

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Is There Really Root-and-Pattern Morphology? Evidence from Classical Arabic | Catalan Journal of Linguistics

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Yes. Though I think Deepl-write (one of my favourites) is quite new

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Amnesty Deutschland @amnesty.de · 13/02/2025

"Arabisch zu sprechen, gefährdet die öffentliche Sicherheit", begründet die Polizei ihr Sprachverbot und kriminalisiert damit pauschal eine Sprache und die Menschen, die sie sprechen. Berliner Behörden müssen das Recht auf Protest und Nicht-Diskriminierung für alle wahren!

In Berlin hast die Polizei bei einer Palästina-Solidaritätsdemonstration alle Sprachen außer Deutsch und Englisch verboten.
Arabische Slogans? Untersagt.
Hebräische Beiträge? Nicht gestattet.
Das ist eine menschenrechtswidrige Einschränkung der Meinungs- und Versammlungsfreiheit.

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Vor ein paar Tagen habe ich mir noch Gebäck auf Arabisch bestellt und kam mit der Verkäuferin jordanischer Herkunft (die nur Arabisch und vermutlich Englisch sprach) ins Gespräch. Gut, dass ich nicht zufällig zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort war. Einfach nur illiberal, was hier in Berlin passiert.

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The editors told me: "Review 1 is pretty harsh but we have decided to send it to you anyway because it can help you improve the contents and style of your paper. For round 2 we won't send your revised version to this reviewer."

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I am very sure about the identity of this reviewer. Everyone I told about it said the guy was an asshole. At least the journal excluded him from the further review process. Now, the paper is in press :)

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Since a reviewer tried to prevent a paper from being published by defaming every single aspect of the paper in a very rude way (including minor errors of my English), I started using AI to proofread every sentence I wrote.

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#OTD 139 years ago, Maria Klingenheben-von Tiling (1886-1974) was born 🥳 In her research, she specialised in the Cushitic and Bantu languages of Africa, such as Somali and Swahili, respectively. She was active at the Hamburg Colonial Institute. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

In Germany, the word RECHTS 'right' has undergone an interesting semantic shift. Concerning politics, it just meant 'conservative'. But now, many use it as 'far-right (populist)'. Being conservative is nothing wrong. But this is not what ppl demonstrate against.

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This is Charlie, one of my parents' two cats. We're lucky no-one is allergic here. But if someone would, ... 😅

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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This is censorship, full frontal attack on academic freedom by any means.

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

That is also my intuition (although my Romanian is very basic and more a weak heritage language)

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I guess it depends on the region 🤷🏻‍♂️. I asked my mother (L1: Romanian, from Bucureşti) if she thinks prieten sounds pretentious. Her reply: "No, I don't think so. What makes him think that sounds pretentious. But I also know the word amic though I don't use it very often." 😅

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Ich kann es ja sagen: Ich bin FDP-Mitglied und bin maßlos enttäuscht über die Zustimmung der FDP zum Zustrombegrenzungsgesetz. Grenzkontrollen, Begrenzung statt individueller Beurteilung, Missachtung der Menschenwürde bzgl. subsidiärenen Schutzes. Alles illiberal.

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Didn't know about the presence of amic in Romanian! I just knew prieten 'friend'

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Dominique Bobeck @dombobeck.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Unter der Prämisse des ordoliberalen Sinnbildes des Staats als "Schiedsrichter auf dem Platz" ist das m.E. keine Verdrehung, zumal die deutschen Liberalen das schon so vor der AfD gesehen haben. Natürlich ist die Bewertung solcher Dinge immer ein Fall von Ermessen und individueller Wertegewichtung 🤷🏻‍♂️

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