The Structure of the Noun According to the German Orientalist Karl Brockelmann Through His Study of Arabic Morphology: A Descriptive Analytical Study

This paper presents a descriptive and analytical reading of the structure of the Arabic noun from the perspective of the German orientalist Karl Brockelmann through his study of Arabic morphology in his book The Grammar of Semitic Languages, within the framework of comparisons he made between Semitic languages.After reviewing the field of morphological study and the standard scale by which Arabs measure their speech, the researcher illuminates on Brockelmann's view of the structure of the Arabic noun, which he limited to gender, number, case marking, specification, and derivation, in contrast to the classical Arabic morphological study.This shows his focus on form rather than meaning as a morphological criterion, influenced by the agglutinative aspect of his own language.This influence stems from his adherence to the Western linguistic theory in his study of the Arabic language in particular, and Semitic languages in general.