Aaron Freeman

List of John Benjamins publications in which Aaron Freeman is involved.

Articles

Freeman, Aaron 2018 Patterns of retention of the instrumental case in Old English NOWELE 71:1, pp. 35–55 | Article

In addition to the Germanic nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive cases still present in modern German and Icelandic, Old English inherited a fifth case known as the instrumental. This case was marginal and not consistently distinguishable from the dative, with which it had merged by the… read more

Freeman, Aaron 2016 Arabic ȷ̌ and the class of Sun Letters: A historical and dialectological perspective Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013, Davis, Stuart and Usama Soltan (eds.), pp. 171–185 | Article

This article examines the interaction between Arabic definite article assimilation to coronals and the realization of ȷ� across dialects. Three contrasting grammatical patterns were identified: (1) ȷ� does not trigger assimilation, (2) coronal ȷ� triggers assimilation, and (3) velar g < ȷ�… read more