Alkhudair Raghad, Aljutaily Mohammad
Department of English Language and Translation, College of Arabic Language & Social Studies, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia.
Heliyon. 2022 Jul 30;8(8):e10008. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10008. eCollection 2022 Aug.
This paper advances a comprehensive account of the pattern of trilateral perfect passive verbs (TPPVs) in Qassimi Arabic (QA), a major variety of Najdi Arabic. Data were collected from 31 native QA speakers from three different generations. Qualitative data collection included both structured and semi-structured interviews along with the researchers' observations. A mixed analysis approach was used, allowing for both qualitative and descriptive quantitative analysis. Two important points arose from the findings. First, QA exhibits a hybrid morphophonological system and, hence, adopts different trilateral perfect passive patterns (TPPPs), which diverge from those in Modern Standard Arabic in their template and prosodic structures as well as in the morphophonological processes applied to derive these patterns. Second, the study confirms that one feature of a language is changeability since the pattern of TPPVs in QA reveals several diachronic changes among the generations of QA speakers. It is hoped that these findings will add notable insights to the literature on QA, and to the passive construction in particular.
本文全面阐述了卡西米阿拉伯语（QA）中三边完全被动动词（TPPV）的模式，QA是纳季德阿拉伯语的一种主要变体。数据收集自来自三代不同的31位QA母语者。定性数据收集包括结构化和半结构化访谈以及研究人员的观察。采用了混合分析方法，允许进行定性和描述性定量分析。研究结果产生了两个要点。第一，QA呈现出一种混合形态音系系统，因此采用了不同的三边完全被动模式（TPPP），这些模式在模板、韵律结构以及用于推导这些模式的形态音系过程方面与现代标准阿拉伯语中的模式不同。第二，该研究证实语言的一个特征是可变性，因为QA中TPPV的模式揭示了QA使用者几代人之间的若干历时性变化。希望这些发现将为有关QA的文献，特别是被动结构的文献增添显著的见解。
