Structural study of Arabic morphology

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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'an, 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, qiyas (analogy), ishtiqaq (derivation), morphological notation, augmentation, substitution, elision and assimilation. Their theoretical concepts allowed them to demonstrate the morphological structure of the Arabic language. Despite their efforts, their linguistic capabilities have been minimized and deemphasized by some modern and Western grammarians and their theoretical ideas considered short of general linguistic principles. This dissertation seeks to emphasize the point that the Arab grammarians had an in-depth understanding of the language and were able to develop important morphological concepts in the history of linguistics, some of which can be related to modern linguistic notions. This research seeks to illuminate their ideas and contributions to the development of Arabic morphology and to general linguistics as a whole which cannot be underestimated.