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Arabic Hypocoristics and the Status of the Consonantal Root

Published:2001-07 Issue:3 Volume:32 Page:512-520
ISSN:0024-3892
Container-title:Linguistic Inquiry
language:en
Short-container-title:Linguistic Inquiry

Author:

Davis Stuart¹,Zawaydeh Bushra Adnan²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Linguistics, Memorial Hall 322, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405,

2. Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, 52 Third Avenue, Burlington, Massachusetts 01803,

Abstract

There is currently a controversy regarding the lexical (morphemic) status of the consonantal root in the Semitic languages. Bat-El (1994) and Ratcliffe (1997) have argued against the lexical status of the consonantal root in Hebrew and Arabic, respectively. However, Prunet, Béland, and Idrissi (2000) present Arabic aphasic evidence supporting the lexical (morphemic) status of the consonantal root for Arabic. In this article we offer supporting evidence from Arabic hypocoristics for the morphemic status of the consonantal root. We argue that hypocoristic formation is an output-to-output word formation process that nonetheless references the consonantal root. We then discuss implications.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/002438901750372540

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