Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: MSA is the modern form of Classical Arabic (CA).It attained its current position as a result of contact with western culture and consequent modernization in the Arab world since the 19th century and is now the effective formal language in education, media, literature and all government documentation in all Arab countries.In an attempt to integrate new political, technical, and scientific terms of western civilization, MSA is constantly coining and arabizing new terms, for example ديومقراطية [dīmoqrātiyya] democracy, as well as introducing semantic shifts in classical terms.In addition, stylistic changes in sentence formation largely distinguish modern texts from classical writing styles; particularly in phraseology, syntactic calques, and prepositions (Holes, 1995:46-48).This is evident in newspaper styles that tend to translate from European languages, for example, the introduction of expressions like إذا ما [mā ia] whether, ال نهائي [lā nihāi] infinite, مع التقى [itaqa maa] met with, and the extensive use of the dummy verb قام [qāma] took up and passive forms with تم [tamma] finished as in 1& 2 (Versteegh, 181:2001).1. qām-a bi amal-i igtimā-in maa l-muārada take up.PRF-3sg.M by making-GEN meeting-GEN with the-opposition المعارضة مع اجتماع بعمل قام He held a meeting with the opposition 2. tam-at il-amaliyyat-u bi nagā finish-3sg.F the-operation-NOM by success بنجاح العملية تمت The operation was performed successfully
Author: Ola Ahmed Moshref
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W66680776