Arabic-L:LING:Arabic root count

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Date: 01 Nov 2011
From:Nizar Habash <habash at ccls.columbia.edu<mailto:habash at ccls.columbia.edu>>
Subject:Arabic root count


Hi Nesrine -
        Count of roots according to five resources are listed in section 8.2 in this paper: http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P06/P06-1086.pdf.
Regards
Nizar


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Date: 01 Nov 2011
From:Nancy Dietrich <ndietrich66 at yahoo.com<mailto:ndietrich66 at yahoo.com>>
Subject:Arabic root count

Wow--that question is right up there with the "meaning of life." Curious to see the answer(s)!


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Date: 01 Nov 2011
From:Dan Parvaz <dparvaz at gmail.com<mailto:dparvaz at gmail.com>>
Subject:Arabic root count

Dear Nesrine:

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?

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).

-Dan

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Date: 01 Nov 2011
From:Slavomír Čéplö <bulbulthegreat at gmail.com<mailto:bulbulthegreat at gmail.com>>
Subject:Arabic root count


Dear Nesrine,

try the following references, they may not hold the answer, but they
will point you in the right direction:

Bachra, Bernard. 2001. The Phonological Structure of the Verbal Roots
in Arabic and Hebrew. Brill, Leiden.
Greenberg, Joseph. 1950. The patterning of root morphemes in Semitic.
Word 6,162-181.
Mayer, Thomas, Christian Rohrdantz, Frans Plank, Peter Bak, Miriam
Butt, and Daniel A. Keim. 2010. Consonant co-occurrence in stems
across languages: Automatic analysis and visualization of a
phonotactic constraint. In Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Workshop on NLP
and Linguistics: Finding the Common Ground (NLPLING 2010), 67-75,
2010.


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