This work is a comprehensive study of two well-known phonological
changes in Arabic: the assimilation and the substitution. The
assimilation involves the incorporation of a certain segment into
an adjacent one in such a manner that they both form a doubled
segment. The segments can either be identical or different. This
phenomenon occurs usually in the doubled verbs and their forms and
in some cases of perfects of Form V, VI and VIII. It also occurs in
some other more unusual cases as in two words following each other.
The substitution involves the replacement of a segment for another
different one. It occurs if there is in the word a combination of
two segments which is deemed as heavy, or if both these segments'
points of articulation are close to each other or if they are akin
in character. Other more unusual reasons relate to the peculiarity
of a dialectal variant, to a verse's metrical exigency or to the
exigency of the pause. This book explores in detail many various
cases in which these changes are possible, necessary or forbidden.
The phonological elements, the theoretical discussions and the
coverage of the different works from the 8th century until our
days, offer a thorough and accessible study for both the students
and researchers of Arabic.About the AuthorJoyce Akesson has studied
the Semitic languages at Lund's University, Sweden, and has
previously been a lecturer there during many years. Beside the
present book, she is the author of "The Essentials of the Class of
the Strong Verb in Arabic" (Pallas Athena 2010), "The Complexity of
the Irregular Verbal Nominal Forms & the Phonological Changes
in Arabic" (Pallas Athena Distribution 2009), "Arabic Morphology
and Phonology: Based on the Marah Al-Arwah by Ahmad B. Ali B.
Masud" (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics), Brill
Academic Publishers (July 2001) and "Ahmad B. 'Ali B. Mas'Ud on
Arabic Morphology Marah Al-Arwah: Part 1: The Strong Verb" (Studia
Orientalia Ludensia, Vol 4), Brill Academic Pub (October 1990). She
has also published several articles about Arabic linguistics in two
Journals, the Journal of Arabic Linguistics (the ZAL or Zeitschrift
fur Arabische Linguistik) Wiesbaden, and the previous Acta
Orientalia, Denmark. She has also written a lemma about sarf
"morphology/phonology in the Encyclopaedia of Arabic Language and
Linguistics, vol. 4. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
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