Arabic morphology inflectional and derivational

This chapter takes us on a survey of morphological categories, both derivational and inflectional, focusing not only on MSA but even more particularly on Yemeni, Saudi, and Egyptian dialects in contrastive analysis. Starting with the basics of Arabic derivation, Watson notes the key templatic nature of Arabic word formation and reviews concepts such as verb valency and different types of noun categories. In her discussion of Arabic inflectional categories, Watson covers number, gender, person, aspect, tense, mood, voice, degree, and definiteness.