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The Lexical Semantics of the Arabic Verb (Hardcover)
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The Lexical Semantics of the Arabic Verb (Hardcover)
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This book is an investigation of Arabic derivational morphology
that focuses on the relationship between verb meaning and
linguistic form. Beginning with the ground form, the book offers a
comprehensive analysis of the most common verb patterns of Arabic
from a lexical semantic perspective. Peter Glanville explains why
verbs with seemingly unrelated meanings share the same phonological
shape, and analyses sets of words that contain the same consonantal
root to arrive at a common abstraction. He uses both contemporary
and historical data to explore the semantics of reflexivity,
symmetry, causation, and repetition, and argues that the verb
patterns of Arabic that express these phenomena have come about as
the result of grammaticalization and analogical processes that are
common cross-linguistically. The book adopts an approach to
morphology in which rule-based derivation has created word patterns
and consonantal roots, with the result that in some derivations
roots may be extracted from a source word and plugged in to a
pattern. It illustrates the semantic relationship between a source
word and its derivative, while also offering evidence to support
the view of the consonantal root as a morphological object. The
volume will be a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and
graduate students of Arabic language and linguistics who are
interested in understanding the verb patterns of Arabic, the
derivational relationships between words, and the construction of
meaning in the mind. It will also appeal to researchers and
students in morphology, semantics, historical linguistics, and
cognitive linguistics.
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