QUALIFICATION AND MORPHOLOGY IN HYPOTACTIC SYNTAGMS IN MODERN WRITTEN ARABIC

• Authors: Michalski Marcin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Modern Written Arabic is a language rich in morphological indicators of qualification between words constituting hypotactic syntagms. However, the relationship between qualification and morphology seems not to have been studied properly in this language, partly due to the fact that the term qualification, also called determination or modification, has not been consistently employed by authors describing this language. While descriptions of morphological structures of syntagms are coherent and almost unanimous, various approaches to qualification in these syntagms, frequently lacking theoretical underpinning, are flawed by terminological chaos and lack of precision. In the present paper, the concept of qualification is introduced and employed for the purpose of describing some problematic hypotactic syntagms in Modern Written Arabic (i.e. indirect attribute, formal annexation, some specific cases of true annexation, and a syntagm involving a numeral and an adjective). It can be observed that Modern Written Arabic uses three basic configurations of morphological indicators and qualification. Among them is one in which morphological indicators, namely agreement between two words, do not indicate qualification between them.

Keywords

EN

MODERN WRITTEN ARABIC; MORPHOLOGICAL INDICATORS - BASIC CONFIGURATIONS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Rocznik Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 117-131
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Michalski Marcin

• Marcin Michalski, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Wydzial Neofilologii, Instytut Orientalistyczny, al. Niepodleglosci 4, 61-867 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA077912