아랍어 형용사에 관한 연구

A Study on Arabic Adjectives -Focusing on Its Forms and Functions-

The purpose of this study is to examine Arabic adjectives. As space of the study is very wide, we have concentrated on their forms and functions. Adjectives play an important role in the syntactic structures of sentences because they have an attributive and predicative functions. According to Arabian traditional classification, it is said that the adjective belongs to the noun class. By this, we divided the adjectives into five groups in light of their meanings or forms. During our study, we first learned how to form adjective through the morphemic analytic method in the following examples; relationship النسبة, including the names of places, tribes), adjectives from the plural nouns, loan words, adjectives only for woman, double adjectivization and adjectivization of compound nouns. Next we classified the functions by adjectives to predicative and attributive functions. We found that the functions of Arabic adjectives are the same as the functions of English adjectives and English adjectives. Finally, we concluded that Arabic language adheres to the modification of the pre-nominal pattern with the diverse modification forms aside from other languages.