The Applicative Combinatory Categorial Analysis of Arabic

The Applicative Combinatory Categorial Grammar (ACCG), like the whole of the other categorial models conceptualizes the languages as organized systems of linguistic units (words, morphemes, lexemes, etc) of which some function as operators whereas others function as operands. The ACCG is a sufficiently flexible model to give an account of several languages (SVO, VSO, SOV, etc.) and several forms of organisation of the linguistic units of these languages (coordination, subordination, with backward modifier, etc). However, the research tasks were limited almost exclusively to European languages, in particular French, English, German, Dutch. A language like Arabic, in spite of the richness of the tradition of its schools of thought, which go back for several centuries, remains unexplored by this current, except some research works. In our article, we show how the model of Applicative Combinatory Categorial Grammar can give an account of certain forms of Arabic. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.