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Phonology-Of-Weak-Verbs-1.Pdf THE PHONOLOGY OF WEAK VERBS A SIMPLE DIAGRAM OF RULES TIMOTHY MITCHELL PRINCETON UNIVERSITY The conjugation of Arabic verbs whose second or third radical is weak differs from the conjugation of strong verbs according to a small number of precise phonological rules. This article presents those rules in the form of a diagram. The diagram is easily memorized, and enables the student to produce from a knowledge of the strong verb the correct form for any weak root. It may be used as an aid or even an alternative to the memorization of the dozen or more paradigms of hollow and defective verbs. It also explains the formation from weak roots of participles, masdars, and defective nouns. The diagram adopts the terminology used in Elementary Modern Standard Arabic (Michigan, 1976) and parts of it simply reorganize some of the rules presented there. All Arabic letters are transliterated, because the presence of vowels (which determine the fate of the weak consonant) is clearer in transliteration. The examples given below illustrate how the rules of the diagram apply, first for defective verbs, then for hollow verbs, and finally for nominal forms. Each of the five notes included with the examples covers a point or exception not mentioned explicitly in the diagram. The diagram is explained as follows. When one of the two weak letters W (3) and Y ( g ) occurs as the second or third radical of a verb, conjugating that verb according to the paradigms of the strong verb would place the weak radical amid various combinations of preceding and following vowels. Indicating the weak radical by the term "glide" (G) and the vowels by /v/ when short and /w/ when long, these hypothef ical combi?a/tipns, are : VGV (e.g. + BaQe; JU,.~~NDUWU; 23 QeLa) Gv (e.g., 3?'/ 'a~WaZa; ie!'is taya6 a) vGvv (e.g.3~-+; yaJR%na; , .:a; RaM=) vvGv (e.g. 3J-;° maND*n; 'iJRsn) TL '~'imotnyMI tcne LL These sequences are listed down the left-center of the diagram which appears on the next page. There are two other possible sequences which, for reasons explained below, do not appear- - on the diagram: 9,;; 9 = /- GVV (e. g. t . P,, r ' iQWaaMun; ,P 4 ! J2* ,.LT~?~WUUL~~) vG (e.g. --' ~a~stu;2 'UND*; G--+- yaBQsna) The sequences of vowels and glide produced according to the strong verb pattern are unstable in all except a few cases. The stable exceptions, where the glide behaves as a strong consonant, are listed down the left- hand side of the diagram. In all other cases, the hypothetical strong form is altered according to the three steps indicated on the right-hand side of the diagram to produce the correct form for the weak verb: first, the glide drops out; second, the vowels which preceded and followed the glide combine as shown to form one long vowel; and third, in closed syllables (i.e., when followed by a vowelless consonant) this long vowel becomes short. Illustration for Defective Verbs 1. 9 (a) Stable exceptions: The diagram shows that a glide preceded and follow- ed by a short vowel is stable only when followed by /a/ and precede: by the vowel to which it is homogeneous: /iYa/ ( 3 7 ) and /uWa/ ( 5 - ). However, when followed b,y (a/ and preceded by the vowel to which it is heterogeneous--/u~a/ ( G -) or /iWa/ ( 5 7) --the weak radical survives, but only by the transformation of the /u/ or/W/ into,/i/ or /Y/ respec- tively, to produce the homogeneous sequence /iYa/ ( + 7 ). That is, when 'u-sound' and 'i-sound' are mixed, the 'i-sound' prevails. Examples. Strong ' i- sound' pattern prevails Becomes BaQe -stable (3ms Perf Act I) -stable (3ms Subj Act I) Ra?= (3ms Perf Act I) >; &-+' -~ot& Once /Y/ has been substituted dr /W/ in this manner as the third radical in the third person masculine singular of the perfect, the radical remains IY/ throughout the inflection (though it may, of course, be elided, as illustrated below). Similarly, final radical /W/ becomes /Y/ through- out all the derived forms of the defective verb. (b) In all other cases /vGv/ is unstable, and the form for the weak verb is produced according to the three steps shown on the right of the diagram. (i) The glide drops out, leaving /v..v/ (the vowels which preceded and followed it). 3 w < 3 I1 II 0 3 (u 3 0 Y +' I-' Le r. 0 a 9 rn rD P. 1 0 w 2 w rr8 0 Y C Y C 0 P z 5 (D n, rn I-' m 0 5 c c \< z C (D II 0, II X w w 3 3'-c S Y Y r tr r o rn 0 3 19 9 C 2 :ID Cn I-' 1 0 5 rt C 0 Z w n, Z I-'\ 4 II a P. '3 3- rt 3' 0 3 9 rn (ii) These two vowels combine to form one long vowel, /vv/. If they are different, they form /aa/ if the vowel that preceded the glide was ,a/, and otherwise /ii/. (As usual, /i/ prevails over /u/.) (iii) If the long vowel thus produced is within a closed syllable, it becomes short. Examples: (i) (ii) (iii) S tronn- Glide ivv/. is In closed pattern drops out formed syllables Becomes NaDaWa a. .a aa NaD= (3ms Perf Act I) * / -- IU (3ms Impf Act I) .. -- NaDaWa t a. .a NaDat (3fs Perf Act I) E;= uu- 2. 9 (a) The glide in this sequence is stable only if the long vowel that follows it is /aa/. Again, however, the heterogeneous /iWaa/ (1; 3-- ) and /uyaa/ (G-C.f) must become /i~aa/(L 7). (The 'i-sound' prevails) Examples : Strong 'i-sound' pattern prevails Becomes RaMs -- -stable (3md Perf Act I) G,' yaNDwni -- -stable (3md Impf Act I) .>.- . kinQ*~~n iYaa ' inQiYaaDun (vn VII hollow) a\_) a, I 4 -0 - I b'sI (b) In all other cases /vGvv/ is unstablecakd the glide drops out, the remaining vowels combining to form a long vowel as shown on the bottom right of the diagram: /a/*combines with the /uu/ or /ii/ that follows to form the diphthong law/ (3 '--) or /ay/ (5i);otherwise the long vowel formed is simply /uu/ or /ii/, according to the long vowel which originally followed the glide. Examples: Strong Glide Long vowel pattern drops out formed Becomes yaBQaYuuna a..uu aw yaBQzna (3ms Impf Act I) / 7.H 3 3 .: .- 5- <*.': a. .ii aY ti~~~na(2fs Impf Act I) I 0 -.,- yg~~uuna (3ms Impf Act I) . 7-*/ e~Fb'-8-a) sqxah aayJsajap 103 so dldde salnx amos aq~ :a:,oN .c r , c . t (I :,3v 3dm1 sac) ~HT~SBK T r ?.. nxZseK 9.7 1 mc-.7 L --, ;a ex (I 238 3~adsm~) E~Z~TE~ e ee 8.. E2ZPMP, l,= ; / (I 33V $lad' SUE) BZEBpl BE ow- c~~~~r~, samo3ag salqellds pauaq~8ual :,no pas0~3UI ST -[~MOA sd0xp 3 uxa22ed (TTT) (?TI (r) %uox:,s :saldmexg .salqsllds pasol:, uy paua2xoqs ST pus '8uol samo3aq lamoh aq2 ':,no sdoxp ap~l8aq:, :lensn so pamxojsusx:, sy :,I -alqe:,sun sr '-[amo~ou sarxxm qxah mo~loqa 30 -[o>rpox :,sxrj aq:, uaqm sxnxo q:,;rqm cEamanbas aq;L -2 .uoy2da:,xa auo puo aTnx leuo~:,?ppeauo q:,ym 'sqzah at.y:,:,ajap xoj so 2snF blddo mox8w~paq2 30 salnx aq:, swxoj 3uyuyomax aq2 UI a(os~8 x PUB AI sw.103 UJ '~JEUOJ~~JPaq:, uy pa:,e>ypur 's:,oox awos 43ym pue) IA puo 'A '111 '11 smxoj ur sqxah %uox:,s ayyl pa:,o%n[uos axo sqxah mollo~ :sa~dmaxg '330 sdoxp dldwrs 3~~1%aq:, os '8uypua lamoh pauaqj%ua-[ e :,ou 'axoqs e saxynbax mxo3 aqa 30 uoy:,e3~j;ru%ysaq2 ap~l8aq:, smo-[-[o3 Tamoh lo :,UEUOSUO3 ou UaqM 'swxo~ ah;r~exadmypue a~~ssnfaq:, u~ :,ng :.%.a -xauaq:,%ual TJMOA o so :,nq ~uouosuo:, a so :,OU 'd~[oxn:,ou SIJB JJ lamor\ ou sayxxa3 aprl% au:, UaqM asnmaq 'mox8ayp aq:, uo xoadde :,ou saop amanbas syqL 5 :WON .c becomes QsLa) but with one exception. In the perfect active of form I hollow verbs, the long vowel /aa/ shortens in closed syllables not to /a/ but to the vowel corresponding to the elided glide (e.g., QaWaLta becomes Qa..aLta then QgLta, not QaLta). But if the first-form hollow verb is one whose hypothetical strong form has /i/ in the perfect stem (indicated by the presence of /a/ as the vowel of the imperfect stem), this i-sound prevails over a middle-radical /W/. Therefore the /aa/ of open syljables shortens in closed syllables not t_o*/u/ but to />I. E.g., NaaMa ( (from NaWiMa) shortens to NiMta ( -;)> KaaDa ( J~~) (from KaWiDa) shortets to KiDta (La* ), and XaaFa (LIG) (from XaWiFa) shortens to XiFta ( y ). A few verbs of this pattern avoid the problem altogether, however, by c~njugatingas strong verbs (e.g., ' aWiRa ( j+ ), and HaWiSa (&? ) * .* Illustration for participles, masdars, and defective nouns 1. All the above rules apply with the following addition. The sequence -vvGv is stable when the glide is preceded by the long vowel to which it is homogeneous: /uuWv/ 6 A ) and /iiYv/ (3 ). When the preceding vowel is heterogeneous, the sequence is made stable by the 'i-sound' prevailing: /iiWv/ (y ) and /uu~v/($J ) both become /iiYv/ ( 3 ,). Finally, when the preceding vowel is /aa/, the glide is replaced by hamza ( ' 1: ) . Examples : Strong pattern Becomes maNDuuWun stable (Passive participle I) 4.
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