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Prepositional Verbs in Arabic: A Corpus-based Study

Mohammed Modhaffer and C.V. Sivaramakrishna

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate prepositional verbs in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) with a focus on verbs collocating with the preposition /fi:/ ‘in’. We extract the candidates from tagged text corpora of more than 106 million words. We analyze the extracted candidates according to the valency of the construction and the faithfulness of the English translation to the original entries. Results show that the majority of entries require one argument while others require extra optional argument. While most of the translated candidates retain the original preposition, the remaining ones either collocate with a different preposition or do not collocate with prepositions at all. Furthermore, results show that active and passive mismatch is inevitable in translating prepositional verbs. We conclude with proposing a typical entry of prepositional verbs to be followed by Arabic-English learners’ dictionaries. At the end of the paper, we share our gold data for further use by teachers, translators and lexicographers who are interested in Arabic.

Keywords:prepositional verbs in Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, corpus-based study, applied lexicography, Arabic teaching and testing

1. Introduction

According to Cambridge Dictionary, prepositional verbs have two parts: a verb and a preposition which cannot be separated from each other, for example break into (a house). Prepositional verbs are common in every natural language. In Arabic, prepositional verbs are quite common and they are usually polysemous in nature. Modhaffer and Sivaramakrishna (2017) reported that every sixth word in Arabic is a preposition.

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MOHAMMED MODHAFFER (Corresponding author)
Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies
University of Mysore
Manasagangotri
Mysore – 570006
Karnataka
India
modhaffer@gmail.com
ORCID iD: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7866-418X
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DR. C.V. SIVARAMAKRISHNA (Co-author)
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Central Institute of Indian Languages
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
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Mysore – 570006
Karnataka
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shivaramakrishna1963@gmail.com

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