La Formation des
Pluriels Brisés Issus des Quinquilitères et des Sextilitères en Arabe
pp. 93-145
ILHAM DUPONT MOUJIB
Abstract
The main objective of this study
is to clarify the formation of sextiliteral and quintileteral broken plurals
in Arabic and to draw conclusions for the organization of morphology and
phonology in general. Our research has incited us to ask questions about the
empirical implication of McCarthy’s treatment of broken plural which he
bases only on a limited number of examples. Our analysis allows us to
establish that the formation of broken plurals is not simply a matter of a
mechanical association from left to right as McCarthy would let us believe.
We show that other considerations such as the position of consonants, their
nature, the status of the vowel in final position in some maSdars, the
resort to the deep structure all must necessarily be taken into
consideration. At the end of the paper, we propose a new analysis for the
broken plural derivation, and show that the broken plural is not derived
from the singular template as it is proposed by McCarthy and other linguists.
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