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- Title
Morphophonemic Alternations in Arabic Noun Formation.
- Authors
Naaser, Muaath Saeed Abdullah; Saranya, R.
- Abstract
This paper investigates various morphophonemic alternations which are mainly found in the morphology of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) nouns, with a special reference to the morphophonological rules that account for these alternations. Arabic is a highly inflectional language. It employs a wide variety of inflectional affixes which are either attached to the stem as prefixes or suffixes. This inflectional nature makes the language susceptible to several morphophonemic changes occurring particularly at morpheme boundaries. Arabic morphology is so highly interconnected with phonology that most morphological processes are triggered by phonology. That is why most of the morphological operations are often phonologically conditioned in a systematic way. Morphologically conditioned alternations also occur but in fewer contexts. The paper focuses on the alternations which occur within morphemes, or across morpheme or word boundaries in Arabic noun formation.
- Subjects
NOUNS; ARABIC language; MORPHOPHONEMICS; PHONETICS; MORPHEMICS; AFFIXES (Grammar)
- Publication
Language in India, 2020, Vol 20, Issue 7, p108
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article