Martine Vanhove Beja grammatical sketch Beja grammatical sketch Martine Vanhove (LLACAN – CNRS, INALCO, PRES Sorbonne Paris-Cité) This sketch contains original material and analysis. The citation format is the following: Vanhove, Martine. 2014. Beja Grammatical Sketch. In Mettouchi, A. and C. Chanard (eds.) The CorpAfroAs Corpus of Spoken AfroAsiatic Languages. 68 pages. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/scl.68.website . Accessed on dd/mm/yyyy. Pages numbers should be referenced as they appear in this pdf. Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS....................................................................................................................................... 1 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 4 2. PHONOLOGY..................................................................................................................................................... 5 2.1. CONSONANT PHONEMES ............................................................................................................................................ 5 2.1.1. Allophones, free variation and phonological rules ....................................................................................... 6 2.2. VOCALIC PHONEMES .................................................................................................................................................. 6 2.2.1. Allophones, free variation and phonological rules ....................................................................................... 7 2.3. PHONOTACTICS......................................................................................................................................................... 7 2.4. STRESS .................................................................................................................................................................... 8 3. MORPHOLOGY .................................................................................................................................................. 8 3.1. NOMINAL MORPHOLOGY ............................................................................................................................................ 9 3.1.1. Noun categories ........................................................................................................................................... 9 3.1.2. Noun patterns .............................................................................................................................................. 9 3.1.2.1. “Basic” noun patterns ............................................................................................................................................. 9 3.1.2.2. Instrument Nouns ................................................................................................................................................... 9 3.1.2.3. Place Nouns .......................................................................................................................................................... 10 3.1.3. Adjectives ................................................................................................................................................... 10 3.1.3.1. Adjective patterns................................................................................................................................................. 10 3.1.3.2. Adjectivizer affix ................................................................................................................................................... 10 3.1.4. Gender ........................................................................................................................................................ 11 3.1.5. Number....................................................................................................................................................... 11 3.1.5.1. Vocalic ablaut........................................................................................................................................................ 11 3.1.5.2. Stress alternation.................................................................................................................................................. 12 3.1.5.3. The suffix ‐a .......................................................................................................................................................... 12 3.1.5.4. Reduplication ........................................................................................................................................................ 12 3.1.5.5. Suppletive plurals ................................................................................................................................................. 12 3.1.5.6. Inherent plural nouns ........................................................................................................................................... 12 3.1.5.7. Singulative ............................................................................................................................................................ 12 3.1.6. Cases .......................................................................................................................................................... 12