Broken plurals in the Muscat dialect of Omani Arabic
| dc.contributor.author | Al-Aghbari, Khalsa Hamed | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Urbanczyk, Suzanne Claire | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-04-10T05:59:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-04-10T05:59:48Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2004 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-04-10T05:59:48Z | |
| dc.degree.department | Dept. of Linguistics | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis examines one of the most intriguing and much studied phenomena in Semitic known as the broken plural formation. It has a twofold goal. It documents the diverse shapes of broken plurals in the Muscat dialect of Omani Arabic. Furthermore, it provides a formal analysis to the shapes and vocalism contained in these word forms within Optimality Theory framework (Prince and Smolensky 1993; McCarthy and Prince 1993a & 1993b). Following proposals by McCarthy (2000), this thesis assumes that the distinction between the singulars and broken plural shapes is better represented as 'affixed mora (p)' attached at a certain locus in broken plural forms. The analysis of the vocalism characterizing broken plural forms addresses two distinct types of fixed vocalism: phonological and specified. Fixed vocalism is demonstrated to result from an interaction between conflicting alignment and CrispEdge constraints (It6 and Mester 1999) together with *Place markedness constraints. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/544 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Arabic language -- Dialects -- Oman | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Arabic language -- Number | en_US |
| dc.title | Broken plurals in the Muscat dialect of Omani Arabic | en_US |
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