Courses - Fall 2025
ARAB225
Roots and Patterns: Verb Meaning in Arabic
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ARAB102; or must have appropriate World Language Placement Test (WLPT) score.
Credit only granted for: ARAB499K or ARAB225.
Formerly: ARAB499K.
Additional information: No prior linguistic training is required, but an interest in language and linguistics is assumed.
Examines the templatic morphology of the Arabic verb system, and asks what the workings of such a system tell us about the way that humans construct and encode meaning. Moves beyond the traditional labels that are used to name the different categories of Arabic verb, to explore the conceptual structures that are coded linguistically by the various verb patterns.
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