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This is done by placing three dots (triangularly distributed) under
the Arabic letter Li ; and three dots above the Arabic letter L3 .
Without these orthographic adjustments such English words as 'pray'
and 'villa' would be disastrously reproduced in Arabic as 'bray' and
'fills'. Phonetic transcription is of extremely semantic significance
when used to represent sounds produced by animate or inanimate
referents respectively; a linguistic phenomenon generally known as
'onomatopoeia'.
A. MORPHOLOGICAL CORRESPONDENCE
Morphological correspondences between word structures of
both source and target languages involve (1) complexity of word
formation, (2) differences of word classes, and (3) categories
expressed by various classes of words.
Word formation in Arabic, let alone other semitic languages
such as Hebrew, is characterized by a high degree of relative
complexity. The verb, which is the most prominent of word classes,
is highly inflected to specify not only the particular action but
also such features as actors, time, aspect, voice and mode.
Affixal (prefixal and suffixal) inflections on the verb make it so
functionally rich as to subsume a large number of concepts. Any
misconception or misinterpretation of verbal structures uould lead
to miscorrespondences in the translated text. For instance, the
verbal sentence"
tt
tH would require a greater
number of words when translated into English. The Arabic sentence
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