Morphological Patterns of Personal Naming Practice: A Case Study of Non-Concatenative Arabic Language

Abdelrazzaq Tahat

doi:10.6007/ijarbss/v10-i6/7333

Abstract

The type pf a personal name and the language system to which these names adhere to are two very significant components to determine the morphological pattern of a personal name. Arabic is a synthetic fusional language that allows morphological operations to be applied to the root itself as non-concatenative operations involved. This survey of morphology is precisely focused on the different ways of analyzing and describing the morphological patterns that Jordanian personal names follow through their formation process relying on the derivational and inflectional approaches. conventionally, we referred to the associations that make up various parts of lexeme as morphological patterns; thus, the current analysis revealed and identified the patterns in which Jordanian personal names fall including derivation processes; verbal nouns derived from trilateral, quadrilateral, and quinquiliteral verb roots, compounding, diminutivization, and reduplication; in addition to the inflectional processes including pluralization and personal names inflected for gender. It is quite obvious that Jordanian personal names could be morphologically classified as derived and inflected names besides each patterns involves a set of word’s structure operations that mark a name as derivationally or inflectionally formulated.

Highlights

Speaking, the classification of languages is divided into groups according to some specific given features (Aronoff and Fudeman, 2010)
This study is mainly focusing on the linguistic aspects of the Jordanian personal names; precisely on the morphological structure of different types of morphemes forming a personal name
While it is quite important to highlight that personal names are widely investigated from a socio-cultural perspective, it is necessary to find the linguistic content of personal names as they are proved to be part of language both morphologically and semantically as the current study demonstrated

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Introduction

The classification of languages is divided into groups according to some specific given features (Aronoff and Fudeman, 2010). These parameters could be the order of language elements i.e. words order which involve the syntactic features, how sounds are articulated and used in the phonological system, and the morphological types a given language has or lack in its structural system (Comrie, 1989). Arabic is a fusional non-concatenative synthetic language permits morphological operations applied to the root itself according to some abstract patterns, and allows derivational and inflectional processes to form new words (Muhammad, 2006). The aforementioned is highly significant to open the floor and determine the path to investigate the morphological patterns the study aiming to answer because morphological patterns are applied to a set of associations that build the different forms of lexeme (Anindo, 2016)

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