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Grammatical Relations in Arabic Compound Words: Evidence from Corpus-linguistics

Mohammed Modhaffer and Dr. C. V. Sivaramakrishna

Abstract

This paper investigates the grammatical relations in Arabic bigram compound words in the frame work of Scalise and Bisetto (2009). Total of 16570 compound words were extracted from more than 672 million words, using contingency tables and log-likelihood ratio. Data analysis revealed that the ranking order of the grammatical relations is as follows: attributive (51.79%), subordination (47.70%) and coordination (0.51%).

1. Introduction

Arabic is the Semitic language spoken by circa 400 million native speakers in the Middle East and it is also the formal language in the religious functions of more than one billion Muslims around the world. Arabic is also one of the 6 languages of the United Nations. Standard Arabic is composed of Classical Arabic (CA) and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). CA is the variety of the Holy Qur’an. It served as the medium of communication, literature, trade and commerce during the golden era of Islamic Empire (7th Century – 13th Century circa). MSA is a revival copy of CA and it came into existence in the 19th Century. In terms of spelling and morphology, MSA does resemble CA to a large extent, but both differ in terms of structure, where MSA is said to use a simpler structure.

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MOHAMMED MODHAFFER (Corresponding author)
Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies
University of Mysore
Manasagangotri
Mysore – 570006
Karnataka
India
modhaffer@gmail.com
ORCID iD: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7866-418X

DR. C.V. SIVARAMAKRISHNA (Co-author)
Research Guide
Reader-cum-Research Officer
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Hunsur Road, Manasagangotri
Mysore – 570006
Karnataka
India
shivaramakrishna1963@gmail.com

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