The Formation of Word Derivation of Linguistic Study in Arabic Language

Abstract

This is a descriptive study in a linguistic approach that traces of words in the dictionary focusing on verbs in Arabic language that derive various words with different meanings after getting the derivation process. The verbs that have been tracked through the dictionary were processed in order know the change of word class from verbs as the basic words to nouns as derivative ones. In this process, it happened phonological process, such as lengthening vowels, shortening vowels, deleting vowels, inserting consonants, and adding certain consonants in syllables. The results showed that most of the vowel /a/ in the stem of verb in Arabic language occurred common vowel deletion with more vowel /a/ than /i/ and /u/. In addition, there was  الزوائد (al-zawa>id) in the language which has suffixes called bound morphemes.

Keywords: Formation, Derivative words, Linguistics, Arabic Language