الباحث: أ/ أنور علي حميد الأثوري
الدرجة العلمية: ماجستير
تاريخ الإقرار: 2000م INTRODUCTION
1- Yemeni colloquial Arabic (YCA)
The Colassical Arabic (CA) along with its various dialects all over the Arab countries belong to the Semitic Language Family among which we find Hebrew, Armean, etc. Classical Arabic. however. is not used as the language of the every-day life in the Arab home land. It is only used as the medium of instructions in the different educational institutions such as schools, universities, institutes, etc. In addition to this it is used as the language of TV news and programmes. newspapers, magazines books etc.
In other words, and from a socio-linguistic, point of view, the Arabic-speaking community is a diaglossic community where the Classical Arabic functions as the High variety and the regional colloquial dialects are used as Low varieties. As a low variety, Yemeni Colloquial Arabic (YCA) is mainly used in day-to-day communication. Being the spoken language of the community is the principal motivation for choosing YCA for such study rather than classical Arabic.
This dialect of Yemen is, generally speaking, spoken by more than six million in large part of the country, more specifically in the governorates of Taiz, aden, and Ibb which are located in the south and middle of the county However, it is important here to notice that each community in these three governorates maintains its own linguistic characteristics you may find some differences in the use of some lexical words and pronunciation of some sounds.
In this Study I am talk about going to talk about some formal aspects of YCA, namely of noun, verb and lexical reflexives. First, we will have a chance to look at the basis on which noun is classified in YCA Then I will talk about the inflectional properties of YCA verb from a morphological point of view. The lexical reflexives are what is called Generative or Chomskyan syntax We will see by applying binding conditions, whether YCA reflexives are local or long-distance reflexives. Finally I will discuss in some details the construct state (CS) in YCA as a special characteristic of semitic Language.
2- this scope and Methodology of the study.
This study operates within the linguistic model of generative grammar initiated by Chomsky with references from some developments in morphology especially from Francis Katamba's book on morphology