ARABIC-L: LING: Arabic plural morphology query

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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Date: 08 Jan 1999
From: "R. Hoberman" <rdhoberman at ccmail.sunysb.edu>
Subject: Arabic plural morphology query

Does anyone know of any discussions of Arabic plural formation with
respect to the concepts of inflectional versus derivational morphology?
My idea is that although plural formation in most languages is a classic
example of inflectional morphology, in Arabic it's much more like
derivational: the form is rather unpredictable, many nouns have more than
one plural form, and these may have different meanings (all these
properties, of course, within limits).  Has this been said before?

Bob Hoberman

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