Chapter 2. Psych construction types in Arabic as root-based

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Chapter 2
Psych construction types in Arabic as root-based

Published online: 23 March 2026

Article outline

2.1Essential issues
- 2.1.1Three essential challenges
- 2.1.2Root-Pattern morphology
- 2.1.3Distributed Morphology and the root/template divide
- 2.1.4Psych constructions
2.2First motivation
- 2.2.1Belletti & Rizzi’s tripartite verbal classification
- 2.2.2Categorial flexibility
- 2.2.3Verbless psych constructions
- 2.2.4The ‘psy-chose’ argument
2.3Complex motivation
- 2.3.1On the lack of evidence for denominal or deadjectival processes
- 2.3.2Causative formation
- 2.3.3Non-concatenative morphology
- 2.3.4Multiple categorized CV skeletons produce
  a lot of undesirable redundancy
- 2.3.5Morhosyntactic psych alternations and semantic composition
  - 2.3.5.1Causative form IV
  - 2.3.5.2Causative form II
  - 2.3.5.3Apophonic causative form I
  - 2.3.5.4Inchoative/anticausative form VII
  - 2.3.5.5Reflexive/reciprocal form VIII
  - 2.3.5.6Benefactive causative or anticausative form X
2.4Valency affixes are roots, not templates or categorizers
- 2.4.1Derivational affixes are roots, not categories
- 2.4.2Rooted psych structures
- 2.4.3Passives
2.5Psych event nominals
- 2.5.1SExp nominals only?
- 2.5.2OExp nominals are not felicitous
- 2.5.3DExp nominals are not felicitous either
- 2.5.4Morphologically complex psych nominals as productively felicitous
2.6Furher motivation and a new classification
- 2.6.1The LocExp class
- 2.6.2Monovalent SubjExp
- 2.6.3A new quadripartite classification
2.7Recap and conclusion
Acknowledgements
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