biliteralism

biliteralism

the state or quality of being composed of two letters, as a word. — biliteral, adj.
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This book, based on a bibliographically rich course given by the author at the College de France in May-June 2001, deals with some of the thorniest problems in Semitic and Afroasiatic linguistics: the nature of the Semitic root (biliteralism vs.