Arabic Morphology and Phonology: Based on the Marah al-arwah by Ahmad b. ‘Ai b. Mas‘ud (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics)

This volume presents a study of Arabic morpho-phonology with its basics and intricacies, by making available a wide range of material from the 8th century to the end of the 20th century and exploring the main topics that arise. It uses as its point of departure: the end of the 13th century "Marah al-arwah" by Ahmad b. 'ali Mas'ud, which is critically edited and provided with an introduction, an English translation and an extensive commentary. It offers an analysis of many grammatical theories, paradigms, Quranical citations, verses of poetry, dialectal variants and Semitic words and concludes with various indices that make the enormous body of information easily accessible.