In:The New Arabic Lexicon and its Words: Root-based and templatic morphosyntax
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
[Language Faculty and Beyond 21] 2026
► pp. 147–188
Chapter 5Nominals, nominalizations, and complex derivations
Published online: 23 March 2026
https://doi.org/10.1075/lfab.21.c5
https://doi.org/10.1075/lfab.21.c5
Article outline
- 5.1Basic issues
- 5.1.1No morphological evidence for the category change?
- 5.1.2Lexically related pairs through simple or complex roots
- 5.1.3Traditional thought and the source of derivation issue
- 5.1.4Basic structures, classes and properties
- 5.1.4.1A recap of Fassi Fehri’s (1990; 1993) CCH approach:
three classes of masdar’s - 5.1.4.2Thematic and aspectual properties
- 5.1.4.3Further properties of DN’s
- 5.1.4.1A recap of Fassi Fehri’s (1990; 1993) CCH approach:
- 5.1.5Event nominals with no overt internal argument
- 5.1.6Genitive objects
- 5.1.7The root analysis and AspH
- 5.1.8Case inheritance, accusative and dative, and the Root analysis
- 5.2Three approaches of derived nominals in the literature
- 5.2.1Three classes of Arabic complex nominals
- 5.2.1.1Class I and Class II nominals
- 5.2.1.2Class III nominals
- 5.2.2Three approaches compared: CCH, Root/AspH, and AllosemH
- 5.2.2.1At the origins of the three approaches
- 5.2.2.2Grimshaw’s typology of DN’s
- 5.2.2.3The ambiguity problem
- 5.2.3Marantz’s contextual allosemy
- 5.2.3.1Marantz (2013)
- 5.2.3.2Wood’s Allosemy and the derivation of nominals
- 5.2.4More on contextual allosemy
- 5.2.1Three classes of Arabic complex nominals
- 5.3Deriving nominals without CCH or category typing
- 5.3.1Masdar forms and morphosemantics
- 5.3.1.1Properties of roots
- 5.3.1.2Properties of templates/affixes
- 5.3.1.3Distinct category typing and allosemy
- 5.3.1.4Allomorphy of functional morphemes
- 5.3.2Polysemy or homonymy of DN affixes?
- 5.3.1Masdar forms and morphosemantics
- 5.4Summary and conclusion
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