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Original Articles

Form and Function in Arabic Syntax

Pages 265-269 | Published online: 16 Jun 2015

  • Comparison may be made here between this definition and Kenneth Pike's definition of the tagmeme. He asserts that a tagmeme is a correlation between a functional slot and a morpheme class indicated by a formula such as Sn Pv On. See Kenneth L. Pike, “On Tagmemes, Née Gramemes,” I J AL XXIV (1958), 273–278; and “Interpretation of Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax,” Actes du 8e Congrès international des Linguistes (Oslo, 1958), 363–387.
  • Paul L. Garvin, “Delimitation of Syntactic Units,” Language XXX (1954), 345–348.
  • Literary Arabic case endings help a great deal in confirming these various functions of the Arabic noun morphotagmemes.
  • In Arabic, morphological patterns conform rather well with semantic conotations, for example, the doer of the action pattern of any non-embellished form is always C a C i C while that of the recipient of the action is always ma C C u C and so on.
  • Morphotagmemes may be further subdivided to allomorphotagmemes or mor-photagmeme variants depending on the distribution of these sub-classes.

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