Fatima Abdul-Hussein Khaddam
This paper looks at two of the most important frameworks of Arabic language and those include the binary and triliteral root theories. It investigates historical and modern linguistic controversies this document considers the origin and development of Arabic within the Semitic group of languages. Most of the ancient Arab linguists agreed with the triliteral root theorists regarding the issue of the two-rooted paradigm as the stages of development rather than the basic structures. On the contrary, recent scholars like Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq and Jurji Zaydan reproduced the old theory of binomial root citing phonetics, semantics, and natural sounds that made a call for binaries as the foundation. The triliteral root theory persists dominant not merely logically but because it applies systematically in the Arabic vocabulary and is seamlessly structured in each of the semitic languages. This research also shows how conflicting these or other theories can be in regards to the process of linguistic evolution, and how such a process is still not fully understood by scholars. It thus finds that, whereas ancient linguists were unanimous in obeying triliteral roots, current views range from duality to a prolongation of triliteral roots with the logo of Arabic linguistics.
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