Analogy in the Semitic Languages: Dissertation Presented to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It may be assumed, then, as an established fact that the present uniformity in the appearance of the languages, namely, the pre dominance of tri-consonantal stems, is at the expense of original diversity. Still, even here, after the uniformity had once been established, analogy works as a constructive force in the further inflection of these stems.

But leaving for the present the consideration of analogy and the analogical structure of the Semitic languages in this sense of the term, let us examine the subject of analogy in its narrower, more specific sense, in the sense in which the word is generally used by recent writers, such as Misteli and Sievers let us see what instances of such analogical formations we have in these languages, how they may be most conveniently classified, and how they are related to the fundamental structure and characteristics of these languages.

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