The apophonic chain and the form of weak and strong verbs in Palestinian Arabic

Bibliographic Data

ID20344387
AuthorsNoam Faust (0000-0001-8155-5136, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume34
Issue1
Pages83-121
Publication date2019-05-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Linguistic Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/tlr-2016-0006
OpenAlexW2340671181
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited7

This paper explores the logic behind the various morpho-phonological subdivisions in the verbal system of Palestinian Arabic. It argues for the importance in the understanding of Palestinian Arabic of the apophonic chain proposed for Classical Arabic in Guerssel and Lowenstamm (1993). In Palestinian, it is first argued, the Measure 1 perfective template includes a hard-wired association of its two vocalic positions; the main differences in vocalization between the Palestinian and Classic varieties follow from this fact. The account is then extended to include three large subclasses of weak verbs. Following the analysis of Classical Arabic in Chekayri and Scheer (1996), it is argued that such verbs involve a null element ø, whose realization is determined by the apophonic chain. The second part of the paper provides an account of the entire inflectional paradigms of each of the verbs discussed, a task that was not fully undertaken in previous work. The mechanism of apophony is shown to be at work in this domain, too. An interesting case is discussed of an apparent shift in inflectional paradigm in some forms of the biradical verb. This shift is again shown to follow from the general mechanisms used in the analysis

Arabic · Linguistics · Modern Standard Arabic · Physics · Verb · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy