Arabic-L:LING:on Verb Innovations

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Date: 31 Jan 2007
From:sattar izwaini <sattarumist at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject:on Verb Innovations

It seems that those are not 'verb innovations' as such but rather  
borrowings adapted to Arabic to meet the dialect's need for  
vocabulary to express concepts and processes where the lexical  
resources of the standard language are not resorted to.

As for  /chabb/ in Gulf dialects, it seems it is an abbreviated  
version of /?inchabb/ which is the version used in Iraq. It most  
priobably goes back to standard Arabic /?inkabb/ as in /?inkabba cala  
wajhihi/ to signify the same meaning of shut up.

Regards
Sattar Izwaini

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