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The Elision of the Excessive Letter in Al-Muhkam wal-Muheet ul-A'adham (The Gerund and the Participle) as Examples

Document Type : Original Article

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College of Arts-Tikrit University

10.25130/jls.4.3.12
Abstract
This paper explores the elision of the excessive letter in two derivations in Arabic morphology, namely: the gerund and the participle. In his great lexicon: Al-Muhkam wal-Muheet ul-A'adham the outstanding linguist Ibnu Seeda al-Andalusi. Ibnu Seeda used two terms related to the excessive letters; they are: "elision" and "subtractions" and he suggested elision of the excessive letter in the gerund and the participle. In the examples he presented, Ibnu Seeda suggested the omission of the excessive letters.

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