Radwa Fathi

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Associate researcher at Laboratoire de linguistique de Nantes-UMR 6310

Depuis Spitta-Bey (1880), l'inventaire vocalique de surface de l'arabe du Caire est décrit de façon continue dans une littérature riche et détaillée comme incluant des voyelles moyennes brèves, [e] et [o]. Une nouvelle ère s'ouvre un siècle plus tard avec l'apparition soudaine d'un consensus massif sur l'idée que les voyelles moyennes brèves ne son...

This article revisits the gender exponence in a class of Omani Mehri plural nouns analyzed in Fathi (2017a,b), the fəʕṓwəl/fəʕṓyəl class. In that class, it is argued, gender is exponed canonically on one site and non-canonically on another site. Another class, not discussed in Fathi (2017a,b), is introduced here, the fəʕṓl/fəʕḗl plurals. That secon...

Gender and number in French

A specific class of Mehri broken plurals raises two questions: why does Gender exponence appear to be possible in two different places? Does the fact that Gender exponence in one site is the mirror image of what appears in the other imply polarity? In parallel to these two questions, the issue of what templates really are is raised. Assuming that (...

The gender assignment mechanism of two-gender languages offers a recurrent analytical challenge, namely the presence of two distinct subsystems. The first such subsystem produces pairs of nouns (masculine and feminine) from the same root. The other subsystem produces singleton nouns (masculine or feminine) from one and the same root. What are these...

Gender exponence in underived French nouns is particularly opaque. In this paper, we identify two subsystems of gender assignment: monogendered nouns, bi-gendered nouns; we show what they share and where they diverge. We show how the notorious floating final consonants of the language are handled in each subsystem for purposes of gender exponence....

The dissertation is devoted to the study of the vowel system of an Arabic variety spoken in the major urban centers in northern Egypt, known under the generic term “Egyptian Arabic.” The first common thread that runs through all chapters of the dissertation is to establish descriptive generalizations on issues that have not yet received the proper...