Open AccessTHE IMPACT OF THE MORPHOLOGICAL AFFIXES IN THE LINGUISTIC ECONOMY“A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN HEBREW AND ARABIC LANGUAGE”
Author(s) -
Ban Salih Mahdi Al Khafaji Ibtisam Jebur Mnehil,
Rasheed Ghazwan Majeed
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
rimak international journal of humanities and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2717-8293
DOI - 10.47832/2717-8293.4-3.32
Subject(s) - linguistics , hebrew , prefix , pronunciation , arabic , root (linguistics) , east asian languages , meaning (existential) , semitic languages , computer science , language contact , psychology , philosophy , psychotherapist
The research paper focuses on the morphological affixes in the two languages, Arabic and Hebrew and the impact of these affixes in the linguistic economy. The study aims at gaining knowledge of what linguistic economy achieved by morphological affixes which contribute in creating the rich meaning by little pronunciation as well as making a comparison between the two languages to know the language that is the most economic than the other and investigating the reasons behind this economy. The research is divided into three sections. The first one focuses on the morphological prefixes; the second one on the internal affixations; and the third one on morphological suffixes. The study concluded that there is a great similarity between the Hebrew and Arabic languages in many of the morphological affixations in addition to the simple differences between the two languages. An aspect of this difference is that the Hebrew language tends to borrow the affixations from the foreign languages more than the Arabic language.