Quandaries over the morphonology of the verb in modern standard Arabic and Tunisian Arabic : a tentative draft

Brought up for discussion are problems of general and particular mor(pho)phonology. First, some linguistic terms are clarified, and the status of morphophonology as a linguistic subdiscipline is considered. The particular morphophonological part, referring to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Tunisian Arabic (TA), is topic oriented and it treats in succession: the structure of the verb forms, the relation of homoradicality (homolexicality) specifying the corresponding paradigmatization, and the intra- and interparadigmatic relations. In terms of the former of these relations the concept of morphoneme is defined, and among the latter morphophonological convergence and analogy as well as thematogen homoaffixality are distinguished. Finally, the dynamics of morphophonological space, morphonemic and morphonic representations are touched upon

Phonetic and Morphological Coding of Minimal Syntactic Units in Isolating Languages

The problem of identifying minimal syntactically relevant intrasentential units in isolating languages has not been treated sufficiently thus far within morphological typology. Such units will be called here ‘syntactic words’ or ‘tagmons’. This article inquires into properties of tagmons and intends to provide some new insights into the structure of these units in Chinese and Vietnamese. Two kinds of tagmons of these languages, namely, affixal and adpositional, are subjected to examination in light of flection, paradigmatification, and linguistic codematics. This, in turn, together with the partisentential categorizability of tagmons justifies treating them as relatively coherent integral wholes capable of entering flectional relations which are controlled by intrasentential syntax. The codematic approach to tagmons reveals their morphological and phonological patterning

What should we base the strategy of glottodidactics on?

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