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1) Subject:Arabic root count
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Date: </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; ">01 Nov 2011</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
From:</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Nizar Habash <<a href="mailto:habash@ccls.columbia.edu">habash@ccls.columbia.edu</a>></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
Subject:Arabic root count
<br></span></font></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Hi Nesrine -</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Count of roots according to five resources are listed in section 8.2 in this paper: <a href="http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P06/P06-1086.pdf">http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P06/P06-1086.pdf</a>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Regards</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Nizar</span></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">
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Date: </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; ">01 Nov 2011</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
From:</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Nancy Dietrich <<a href="mailto:ndietrich66@yahoo.com">ndietrich66@yahoo.com</a>></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
Subject:Arabic root count</span></font></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Wow--that question is right up there with the "meaning of life." Curious to see the answer(s)!</span></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">
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Date: </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; ">01 Nov 2011</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
From:</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Dan Parvaz <</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><a href="mailto:dparvaz@gmail.com">dparvaz@gmail.com</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
Subject:Arabic root count</span></font></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Dear Nesrine:</span></p><div style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">It depends. What do you mean by an "Arabic" root. Do borrowings count? If not, how do you define a "native" term? If borrowings do count, is there a cutoff date? Do phonologically identical roots count as two or one? </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Once you have operationalized your definitions, since most dictionaries are organized by root, it's a matter of picking your reference and counting (manually or electronically, depending on the reference).</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">-Dan<br></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
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Date: </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; ">01 Nov 2011</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
From:</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Slavomír Čéplö <</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><a href="mailto:bulbulthegreat@gmail.com">bulbulthegreat@gmail.com</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
Subject:Arabic root count
</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font><p></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Dear Nesrine,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">try the following references, they may not hold the answer, but they</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">will point you in the right direction:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Bachra, Bernard. 2001. The Phonological Structure of the Verbal Roots</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">in Arabic and Hebrew. Brill, Leiden.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Greenberg, Joseph. 1950. The patterning of root morphemes in Semitic.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Word 6,162-181.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Mayer, Thomas, Christian Rohrdantz, Frans Plank, Peter Bak, Miriam</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">Butt, and Daniel A. Keim. 2010. Consonant co-occurrence in stems</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">across languages: Automatic analysis and visualization of a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">phonotactic constraint. In Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Workshop on NLP</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">and Linguistics: Finding the Common Ground (NLPLING 2010), 67-75,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">2010.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><br><br></span></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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