%0 Journal Article
%T An Architecture of the Lexicon: New Perspectives
%A Sabri Alshboul
%A Yousef Al shaboul
%A Suhail M.Asassfeh
%J Studies in Literature and Language
%D 2011
%I Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture
%R 10.3968/j.sll.1923156320110203.010
%X Most approaches to inflectional morphology propose a synchronic account for the establishment of defaultness in the plural inflection. The current research aims at exploring the representation of the default system in JA at a diachronic level. The grammar of JA displays two default plural forms: the sound feminine plural marked with the suffix ¨Caat (e.g.mataar/matar-aat 'an airport/airports') where a suffixation rule predicts the occurrence of the default plural. The second default plural is the iambic broken plural marked with an internal vowel change (short¨Clong vowel) (kursi/karaasi 'a seat /seats'). Our diachronic analysis would take into account the default shift that occurred in the grammar of JA in two different periods: the Turkish period and the British period. The findings reveal the importance of the diachronic factors in determining the status of ¡®defaultness¡¯ in terms of the ability of the lexicon to accept two default inflections. So, JA consists a hierarchy that contains two defaults: the iambic broken plural and the sound feminine plural. This mechanism of accepting two defaults gives insights into applying this multiple default format crosslinguistically in which a grammar of a language can host a multiple default system. Key words: Defaultness; Jordanian Arabic; Diachronic Default; Sound Feminine; Plural; Iambic Broken Plural
%K Defaultness
%K Jordanian Arabic
%K Diachronic Default
%K Sound Feminine
%K Plural
%K Iambic Broken Plural
%U http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/sll/article/view/1618