An Autosegmental Analysis Of The Derivation Of Passive Participles From Triconsonantal Verbs In Modern Standard Arabic: A Replication Study
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The study mainly attempts to assess the validity of a non-corpus-based phonological analysis. The targeted analysis is Abushunar and Mahadin’s (2017) non-linear phonological investigation of the derivation of the passive participle (PP) in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Abushunar and Mahadin (2017) examined the phonological processes that a sample of PPs undergoes during their derivation from triconsonantal verbal stems. Their analysis targeted the PPs on the pattern |ma+C1C2u:C3| which are derived from strong, weak, geminated, and glottalized stems of imperfective verbs. The current study aims to replicate Abushunar and Mahadin’s (2017) research by adopting the same phonological model, i.e. the X-slot and the feature geometry models of non-linear phonology, to analyze the derivation of PPs from their verbal stems. The difference between the two studies is that the replication study is a corpus-based analysis of the derivation of the 515 PPs that are listed under triconsonantal verbs in the corpus-based dictionary mucdʒam ʔalluɣah ʔalcarabijjah ʔalmuca:sirah ‘Dictionary of Modern Arabic Language’. The replicated study, on the other hand, did not base its analysis on a corpus, rather it targeted a sample of PPs which is selected from three sources, viz. Al-Wasi:t Dictionary (2004), Wright (1996) and Wehr (1994). Moreover, to improve the feasibility of the investigation, one type of PPs is chosen in this study, viz. the weak PPs. Weak PPs are targeted because of their susceptibility to various phonological rules which is caused by the inherent instability of the glides which constitute at least one of their radicals. Conducting the replication study revealed that the non-corpus-based phonological study of the derivation of PPs provided similar analysis to its corpus-based counterpart. This indicates that employing a carefully selected sample to examine a phonological phenomenon does not necessarily affect the comprehensiveness and thoroughness of a phonological analysis.
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