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Excavating a linguistic category : on the properties of Ism al-Fiâl and the limits of KalÄm al-âArab
Examining the occurrence of ism fiâl murtajal (an obscure lexical class whose words syntactically are verbs, while morphologically resemble irregular nouns) in three early, founding works of Arabic grammar and lexicology, affords analysis of the wordsâ structures and origins, and informs our understanding of the Classical Arabic linguistic register at whose edges they existed. These worksâ terminology for the items differs from modern terms. Said terminology seems furthermore not yet standardized. Many items do not fit into conventional root-pattern morphological analysis, though creative or unprecedented derivational methods render them pliable to Arabicâs triradical morphosyntactic system. Some items do correspond to known roots, and a few are recognizable as basically conventional, if irregular, imperatives. A few times items exhibit archaic or irregular phonetics or morphophonology. This lexeme classâ presence in the performative Classical Arabic (âarabiyyah) suggests its founding corpus (kalÄm al-âarab) was not merely linguistic (i.e., âArabic languageâ) but also cultural (i.e., perceptions of âurĆ«bahâArabnessâitself).Middle Eastern Studie