Arabic-L:LING:Adjectives and Nouns Responses

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1) Subject: Adjectives and Nouns Response
1) Subject: Adjectives and Nouns Response

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Date: 28 Mar 2001
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Adjectives and Nouns Response

Dear Abby,

      I bought a nice Persian for my bedroom floor--my wife

became furious!

      The term  /al-9arabiyyatu/ is a substantivised noun, i.e.

it is originally an adjective in the expression /al-lughatu

l-9arabiyyatu/ [Above, I intended a Persian cat or rug--would you

like to go out and eat some Chinese tonight?]

      Can any adjective in Arabic be substantivised (=used as

a noun)?

      Best wishes,

                                       Unsubstantivised in Hartford,

                                       Mike Schub


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Date: 28 Mar 2001
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Adjectives and Nouns Response

Re:  nouns/adj.s:  The Arab grammarians divided words into

three major catagories:  ism (nouns, including adjectives:  both

may get tanwiin); fi9l (verbs); and Harf (particles).

                                Mike Schub

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