Minimal word constraints and possible triggers for suppletion: the "short" imperatives in Arabic

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Minimal word constraints and possible triggers for suppletion: the "short" imperatives in Arabic
Original language description
This contribution examines the class of imperatives in Arabic that form a minimal content word, consisting of a CV structure. These forms are derived from the so-called doubly weak verbs, such as raʔā 'to see' or wafā 'to fulfill', whose regularly formed imperatives are respectively ra and fa. Based on examination of a corpus of historical Arabic (CLAUDia) and present-day Arabic dialects, it is argued that there is an observable tendency to avoid such forms and substitute them by either 1) suppletion of one form (Classical Arabic raʔā ~ unẓur 'look, see') or the whole paradigm (dialectal šāf 'to see' ~ šūf 'see [imp.]') or 2) strengthening the original form by some morphological means, usually employment of the geminated verbal stem (Classical Arabic waqā > waqqā 'to protect', dialectal raʔā > ʔara:/yuri: or warra/yiwarri 'to see'), but also simple extension (ǧiʔ > Morrocan Arabic aži 'come'). Short imperatives of CV structure are thus already strongly disfavored in Classical Arabic, and such forms are almost extinct in modern dialects of Arabic.
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA14-10673S" target="_blank" >GA14-10673S: Diachronic Typology of Suppletion</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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