Deriving Arabic verbal "templates" without templates

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4955

Keywords:

Arabic, root-and-pattern morphology, non-concatenative, alignment

Abstract

Much of the recent OT-based literature on Arabic root-and-pattern morphology has identified prosodic constraints as a main driver of the language’s verbal "templates". I argue instead that the system is governed by non-prosodic (morpho)phonological constraints (in the spirit of McCarthy 1993). Following much recent work, this approach views Arabic’s root-and-pattern system as garden-variety morpheme concatenation that is subject to unusual complications in the phonology and/or at the (morpho)syntax-phonology interface. This paper outlines an integrated analysis of the morphophonological properties of the Arabic verbal system without CV templates or prosodic constraints.

Author Biography

  • Sam Zukoff, Leipzig University
    Postdoctoral Researcher in Grammatical Theory

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Published

2021-03-20

How to Cite

Zukoff, Sam. 2021. “Deriving Arabic Verbal ‘templates’ Without Templates”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6 (1): 144–158. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4955.