The Word Formation Process Between the Arabic and Indonesian Language: Corpus Linguistics in Morphological Approach

Authors

  • Muhammad Yunus Anis

    Arabic Literature Department, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta 57126, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30564/fls.v7i5.9360
Received: 4 April 2025 | Revised: 30 April2025 | Accepted: 9 May 2025 | Published Online: 19 May 2025

Abstract

This article examines the word formation process of Arabic and Bahasa Indonesia comparatively from the point of view of corpus linguistics in morphological approach. Arabic as one of the Semitic language families has a distinctive character in word formation. This can be seen in the process of word formation through five important stages, namely: 1) inflection, (2) derivation, (3) allomorphy, (4) abbreviations - acronyms, and (5) compounding. These five things play an important role in the process of word formation in Arabic. In general, this research design is qualitative research. The data in this study are representative language units to examine word formation in Arabic and Indonesian. Then corpus linguistics becomes one of the media in validating the data. The results of the discussion of the article are expected to provide new insights into Arabic, especially related to the study of Arabic Morphology (Sharaf Science) based on corpus linguistics approach. After a comparative analysis based on corpus linguistics and morphology, it can be concluded that, some words in the form of stems (shighatul asās), after experiencing the inflection process, the stem-shaped words have decreased the number of frequencies in the corpora. The study of the morphological word formation process based on corpus linguistics has a contribution to the preparation of lexical dictionaries and language planning, both Arabic and Indonesian. This research is only limited to the study of morphology, word formation, in the future, the potential for corpus studies can be expanded from the side of syntax and semantics.

Keywords:

Inflection; Derivation; Allomorphy; Abbreviations; Acronyms; Compounding; Morphology; Corpus Linguistics

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Anis, M. Y. (2025). The Word Formation Process Between the Arabic and Indonesian Language: Corpus Linguistics in Morphological Approach. Forum for Linguistic Studies, 7(5), 1101–1116. https://doi.org/10.30564/fls.v7i5.9360

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