Abstract
In classical Arabic, most words have two forms: at the ends of major syntactic constituents (“in pause”) a word is shorter than the same word when it appears in non-final position. The pausal form is shorter than the full form by up to one whole syllable and by the whole or part of as many as three morphemes, as the following examples illustrate:1
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Hoberman, R.D. (1996). Subtractive morphology and morpheme identity in Arabic pausal forms. In: Booij, G., van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 1995. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3716-6_9
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