Vowel unpredictability in Hijazi Arabic monosyllabic verbs

The predictability of vowel alternations in Urban Hijazi Arabic imperfective nonce forms

Intrinsic Vowel Pitch in Dutch and Arabic

This paper examines intrinsic vowel pitch (IF0) in Moroccan Standard Arabic and Belgian Standard Dutch in order to investigate the hypothesis that IF0 may depend on the size of the vowel inventory. The results of a production task with 11 Moroccan native speakers of Standard Arabic and 10 Belgian native speakers of Dutch reveal that IF0 in Arabic is significantly smaller (1.28 ST) than in Dutch...

Classifying Arabic Verbs Using Sibling Classes

In the effort of building a verb lexicon classifying the most used verbs in Arabic and providing information about their syntax and semantics (Mousser, 2010), the problem of classes over-generation arises because of the overt morphology of Arabic, which codes not only agreement and inflection relations but also semantic information related to thematic arity or other semantic information like ”i...

Building the Valency Lexicon of Arabic Verbs

This paper describes the building of a valency lexicon of Arabic verbs using a morphologically and syntactically annotated corpus, the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank, as its primary source. We present the theoretical account on valency developed within the Functional Generative Description theory. We apply the framework to Arabic and discuss various valency-related phenomena with respect to ...

A Syntactic Lexicon for Arabic Verbs

In this paper, we present a modeling of the syntactic lexicon for Arabic verbs based on the Lexical Markup Framework. This ISO standard let us describe the lexical information in a simple way using general guidelines and enable the sharing of resources following the standard. We discuss the syntactic information associated to verbs and the model we propose to structure and represent the entries...