Arabic nominals in HPSG: A verbal noun perspective

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https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2010.9

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Semitic languages exhibit rich nonconcatenative morphological operations, which can generate a myriad of derived lexemes. Especially, the feature rich, root-driven morphology in the Arabic language demonstrates the construction of several verb-derived nominals (verbal nouns) such as gerunds, active participles, passive participles, locative participles, etc. Although HPSG is a successful syntactic theory, it lacks the representation of complex nonconcatenative morphology. In this paper, we propose a novel HPSG representation for Arabic nominals and various verb-derived nouns. We also present the lexical type hierarchy and derivational rules for generating these verb-derived nominals using the HPSG framework.

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2010-10-18

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Islam, Md. Sadiqul & Masum, Mahmudul Hasan & Bhuyan, Md. Shariful Islam & Ahmed, Reaz. 2010. Arabic nominals in HPSG: A verbal noun perspective. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 158–178. (doi:10.21248/hpsg.2010.9) (https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/737) (Accessed March 28, 2024.)