A Hundred and One Rules in Arabic Grammar!
- The Arabic Morphology. ==========================
At a very early date, the Arab grammarians invented a notation for the morphological patterns التصريف , which represented the three root radicalsفعل For those grammarians, the task of morphology was the breakdown of words into radical and auxiliary consonantsالزوائد . The grammarians set up methods to identify the radicals, of which the most important wasالاشتقاق , the comparison of the form under scrutiny with morphologically-related words with the same semantic content. In line with the idea of the purity of the language, the semantic extension of an existing word was regarded as the most appropriate device for expansion of the lexicon. The model for this procedure was believed to have been given by the language of the Qur'an itself. Semantic extension became an accepted method of creating new terminology.