The Lexical Semantics of the Arabic Verb

This book explores Arabic derivational morphology, focusing on the relationship between verb meaning and linguistic forms from a lexical semantic perspective. It explains why verbs with seemingly unrelated meanings share the same phonological shape, and analyses sets of words containing the same consonantal root to arrive at a common abstraction.

Peter John Glanville teaches Arabic and Arabic linguistics at the University of Maryland, where he is Director of the Arabic program. He holds a Ph.D. in Arabic Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and an M.Sc. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on Arabic morphology and syntax, in addition to Arabic language pedagogy.

Acknowledgments
List of figures
List of abbreviations
A note on primary references
1: Introduction and overview
2: Words, roots, and patterns
3: Ground form verb patterns
4: Reflexive marking
5: Symmetry
6: Causation and actionalization
7: Repetition
8: The beginnings of a system
Primary references
Bibliography
Index