Afroasiatic is the fourth largest linguistic phylum in the world, with about 375 living languages spoken by some 300 million speakers (www.ethnologue.org). In the view of the contributors to this volume, this number may well be an overestimation. For the Chadic family alone Ethnologue estimates over 190 languages, while most linguists working in the area estimate the number to be between 140 an...

This study is to examine if typological universals built upon primary languages are applicable to interlanguage data in SLA. Implicational universal is considered the classic example of a typological universal by Croft (2003). Thus, the Interlanguage Structural Conformity Hypothesis, which consists of two implicational universals proposed by Eckman (1991), were tested against data from an inter...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence European culture on formation Ukrainian literature 14th-16th centuries. It emphasized that paradigm Renaissance a synthesis original native ideas and Western culture. specific boundary represented in absence state, confessional pluralism, multilingualism, syncretic character, popularity humanism, anthropocentrism. identification identity as ...

Hebrew is a highly synthetic Semitic language, which is well-known for its non-linear root-and-pattern morphology. The current paper discusses a less familiar facet of Hebrew—linear operations relating stems and suffixes. It argues for their central role in Hebrew processing and acquisition, and proposes a systematic distinction between root-and-pattern and stem-and-suffix structures. The paper...