A Morphologically-based Optimality-theoretic Analysis of Modern Standard Arabic Broken Plural | ||
| مجلة ابحاث البصرة للعلوم الأنسانیة | ||
| Article 1, Volume 39, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 11-34 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Dr. Balqis I. G. Rashid - Zina Mahmood Shakir | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Broken Plural (henceforth BP) phenomenon in Semitic languages in general and in Arabic in particular, has always been interesting to linguists who tried their best to tackle it in a comprehensive analytical way. McCarthy (2000), within Prosodic Circumscription, presents pre-Optimality Theoretic (henceforth OT) assumptions of BPs in Classical Arabic. He stipulates the difference between singulars and plurals in an extra mora (µ) added to a specific locus in the plural form. This study, based on McCarthy's assumptions, presents an OT analysis of the morphological process of BP in Modern Standard Arabic (henceforth MSA). Keywords: Optimality Theory, Modern Standard Arabic, Broken Plural, Plural of Paucity, Plural of Multitude, Prosodic Circumscription. * The present study is based on an M.A. study conducted by the first author and supervised by the second one. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| A Morphologically; based Optimality; theoretic Analysis; Modern Standard Arabic Broken Plural | ||
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