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New model challenges Saussurean linguistics with Arabic morphology analysis

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This paper presents a formal mathematical model of Classical Arabic's non-concatenative morphology, challenging the Saussurean axiom of the arbitrary sign. The authors introduce a Morphological Correspondence Theorem, showing unique generation of lexical items from root-pattern pairs, and a Semantic Localization Theorem, proving meaning is determined at the derivational level. They further formalize Saussurean arbitrariness using Kolmogorov complexity, demonstrating that while general arbitrariness is undecidable, Arabic's relative arbitrariness is decidable and significantly lower than in Indo-European languages. AI

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New model challenges Saussurean linguistics with Arabic morphology analysis

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Elnaserledinellah Mahmoud Abdelwahab ·

    The No-Meaning Falsity: The Structural Impossibility of the Arbitrary Sign in Classical Arabic

    arXiv:2608.07737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates whether the postmodern claim of unrestricted semantic indeterminacy, and its foundational Saussurean axiom of the arbitrary sign, are compatible with the structural architecture of Classical Arabic. We develo…

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