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Re: Loanverbs from Semitic



--- In westasianconlangs@yahoogroups.com, "eamoniski" <eamoniski@...>
wrote:
>
> Hello everyone! I have a basic question: if constructing a language
> that has a fairly-IE-typical verb grammar (think Balkan Indo-European,
> actually), and borrowing a substantial number of verbs from a Semitic
> language (specifically Hebrew, also some Aramaic), what form of the
> verb would most likely be the borrowed form?  I figure I would use the
> unmarked form of the verb (3rd-masc. past in Modern Hebrew if I'm not
> mistaken).

Perhaps the whole paradigm could be inherited.