التوليد اللغوي على وزن (فَعْلَنَة) في الاستعمال العربي المعاصر

This article is intended to examine the derivative form fa'lanah, after which many words in modern Arabic, especially in the eastern part of the Arab World, are generated. These words are systematically derived from concrete proper nouns, like tays (taysanah) and walad {waldanah), or abstract proper nouns, like ruh (rawhanah) and laql {'aqlanah). They also may be derived from gerunds, like shahmanah {shahmanah) and haram (harmanah), or from adjectives, like az'ar (za'ranah). However, this fa'lanah form is not to be found in classical Arabic either in prose or in poetry. Nevertheless, Arab liguists speak of a very close derivative form—fa'lan— one which they detected in some particular words, like khalb@n (fool) and dayf@n (hospitable). The form under discussion has unintentionally been producing words needed to express semantic transformation from a non-constant into a constant quality in a person or a thing. It can also be noted that these words come in all possible forms made available by Arabic standard derivative system.