البنية الصرف -دلالية لأفعال المطاوعة في العربية
THE MORPHO-SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE OF INCHOATIVE VERBS IN ARABIC

Summary/Abstract: Arabic has both a syntactic and a morphological inchoatives. We will focus in this article on the morphological inchoativity. More specifically, the morpho-syntactic structure of inchoative verbs can hold two kinds of inchoative morphology. We will argue here that the alternation of these two morphologies on the verb is not at random, or accidental, as was always assumed before, but is linked to the aspectual semantic of the verbal root. We will show first the limits of a morpho-phonological analysis to explain this variation of the two inchoative morphemes, and we will argue afterwards that this variation is a consequence of the aspectual semantic of the verbal root.

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