G. Bohas is following
Ernest Renan, with the revolutionary linguistic movement MER (an acronym for the elements of his new theory,
matrices,
étymons,
radicaux), which seeks to innove this traditional lexicon system of Arabic and, by extension, that of the set of Semitic languages. For Bohas (and his disciples), triliter or triconsonant radicals are nothing but expansions (by rearrangement, reduplication, or consonant or semivowel increase) of articulatory binary ethics (what we might in fact call "biconsonanttic roots"). == Awards ==