PHONOLOGICALLY CONDITIONED MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESS IN MODERN STANDARD ARABIC: AN ANALYSIS OF AL-IBDAAL ‘SUBSTITUTION’ IN FTAʕAL PATTERN USING PROSODIC MORPHOLOGY
This paper provides an analysis of Al-ibdaal ‘substitution’ phenomenon found in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) derivational processes, particularly, in the pattern ftaʕal. Al-ibdaal ‘substitution’ is defined in many Arabic morphological books (Al-Raagihi, 1984; Al-Galaayiini, 1991) as removing a letter and replacing it by another. For example, the /t/ in ztaha: is replaced by /d/ resulting […]