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PAUSAL FORM OF A WORD IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES

Butakova Daria Dmitrievna  (Postgraduate student of the Arab Philology Department M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University )

The languages belonging to the Semitic family demonstrate the presence of such a way of syntagmatic segmentation of speech as the pausal form of a word. This phenomenon is most systematically represented in Arabic literary language, where the opposition of contextual and pausal forms of a word is conditioned by the prosodic system based on the harf structure of the language, it is regular, causes changes in words that do not correspond to the norm, and is preserved in the modern language. As for ancient Hebrew, the texts of the Masoretic reading of the Old Testament indicate that the pausal form of a word is primarily related to the shift of accent to the final vowel, which could change its quality; in some cases, the ways of attitude to the final word of a syntagm coincided with Arabic, but they were non-systematic and were explained by morphological, syntactic and semantic factors, so they have not been preserved in the modern language. In such ancient dead languages as Akkadian, Aramaic, Ugaritic and Syriac, the pausal form of a word did not exist as a regular phenomenon; fragmentary information about possible and impossible sound combinations in the word ending before the pause, as well as examples of possible alternations and truncations have been preserved.

Keywords:Semitic languages, pausal form of a word, mora, syllable, emphasis.
 

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Citation link:
Butakova D. D. PAUSAL FORM OF A WORD IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES // Современная наука: актуальные проблемы теории и практики. Серия: ГУМАНИТАРНЫЕ НАУКИ. -2025. -№04. -С. 197-200 DOI 10.37882/2223–2982.2025.04.09
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