아랍어약자음의 변화에 관한 연구

Abstract

This study is focused on the weak consonants’ changes in Arabic. Three Arabic weak consonants /a/, /u/ and /i/ are easily changed in many circumstances, so we can find some meaningful changes between past verb and present verb forms, singular and plural forms,definite and indefinite forms, and so on. ‘alif is the representative weak consonant among these three weak letters because it may be substituted for other weak letters, not vice versa. Even though ‘alif is shared with hamzah in several things, the latter one is strong consonant which takes a vowel differently from the ‘alif. But it may be awesome that these two forms are different, it is because these two forms are originated from the same letter, the first one, ‘alif, came from Quraysh dialect and hamzah derived from Tamimtribe’s dialect. ‘alifhas two forms: ‘alifmaqsu:rah and ‘alifmamdu:dah. These two ‘alif forms represent /u/ and /i/ in verb past form, and hamzah plays some roles in the Arabic writing system separately. It could be used to distinguish between /u/ and /i/ consonants. This research will handle with the following subjects: - ‘alif’sNature andchanging patterns - changes in weak consonants - deletion in the surface structure