Morphological Categories in Arabic: An Epistemological Approach

Abstract

Objectives: The study aims to present a comprehensive cognitive model of Arabic morphological categories, based on their philosophy, their essence, and their various values.

Methodology: The study adopts induction, description, and hypothesis. Induction traces the category through its existential and philosophical history, leading up to its linguistic context. Description explains its linguistic tools, and hypothesis is based on its functional values.

Results: The study concludes that Arabic morphological categories have meanings that are realized in the divisive structure when specific morphemic affixes are added to them, whether prefixed, suffixed, or infixes. The Arabic morphological categories are: person, number, designation, gender, inflection, and predication. It states that Arabic morphological categories are the same as logical categories, since language is equivalent to thought. It also identifies the determinants of the morphological category. Furthermore, it has found that morphological categories possess competencies that ensure they perform horizontal centrality tasks to classify the divisional structures vertically within them.

Conclusion: Arabic morphological categories have their own tools, functional values, and investment potentials.