Root-Extraction
Roots, Verbs and Nouns ‘Need’ in Arabic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23024341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jamal Ouhalla (University College Dublin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 200-222 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1876-6633 • E-ISSN: 1877-6930 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18776930-00801008 |
| OpenAlex | W2904558403 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article examines the verb ‘need’ in Arabic in light of the decompositional approach proposed in Harves and Kayne (2012) which assumes a Hale and Keyser (1993, 2002)-style analysis whereby transitive ‘need’ derives by incorporation of the noun ‘need’ into a silent possessive verb HAVE . The properties of Arabic ‘need’ are shown to favour the alternative Marantz (1998)-style analysis, whereby the verb ‘need’ and its nominal variant both derive from a common root. On a broader crosslinguistic level, the root-based analysis is shown to account for languages that have transitive possessive ‘have’ and a noun ‘need’ but lack transitive ‘need’ (e.g. French), which are unexpected in the context of the noun-based analysis. Finally, the article sheds light on the critical role of the mechanism of root-extraction out of lexicalised nouns in generating roots necessary for the derivation of verbs.
Combinatorics · Context (archaeology) · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Noun phrase · Possessive · Root (linguistics) · Style (visual arts) · Transitive relation · Verb · Computer Science · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Mathematics · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |