Committee members: Davis, Stuart; Stetkevych, Suzanne; Walbridge, John
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-19045-8
Ph.D.
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Indiana University
2014
The dissertation studies the theoretical structures of Arabic morphology as it developed into an independent linguistic science and examines the principal features which were formulated and established by the Arab grammarians. After a careful examination of the Qur'ān, the corpus of pre-Islamic poetry, and the speech of the Bedouin, the Arab grammarians were able to develop morphological rules and methods such as, qiyās (analogy), ishtiqāq (derivation), morphological notation, augmentation, substitution, elision and assimilation. Their theoretical concepts allowed them to demonstrate the morphological structure of the Arabic language.
Linguistics; Language; Derivation (Morphology); Poetry; Arabic language; Corpus analysis; Literary criticism; Religious literature; History of linguistics; Near Eastern studies; Theoretical linguistics; Morphological analysis; Language history; Reduction (Phonological or Phonetic)
Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Arab grammarians;Arabic morphology