@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/lali.00002.ald,
author = "Al-Dobaian, Abdullah S.",
title = "Arabic synthetic compounds",
journal= "Language and Linguistics",
year = "2018",
volume = "19",
number = "1",
pages = "32-60",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/lali.00002.ald",
url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/lali.00002.ald",
publisher = "John Benjamins",
issn = "1606-822X",
type = "Journal Article",
keywords = "theta-role",
keywords = "regular inflections in compounds",
keywords = "lexical morphology",
keywords = "English compounds",
keywords = "Arabic synthetic compounds",
abstract = "Abstract
This paper discusses some data of Arabic synthetic compounds in which regular plural inflection is included inside compounds. These data pose problems to Kiparsky’s (1982) level-ordering lexical morphology model and Li’s (1990) generalization on verb incorporation. I argue that such compounds are lexically formed based on some pieces of evidence. To support the analysis, I compare the compounds and the construct state constructions in Arabic and Hebrew. Then I show that the lexical analysis explains the morphological, syntactic properties, and the semantics of Arabic synthetic compounds. More specifically, I explain how the lexical analysis applies to theta-role assignment inside the compound and then discuss the number specification of the non-head in the compound of Arabic and English.",
}