Pausal Forms, Arabic Pausal Forms, and TYA Pausal /u/

Dr. Abdullah Shaghi Sep 4, 2015 5:47:06 PM

In a published paper (Not online) entitled "Arabic Pausal Forms and Tihami Yemeni Arabic Pausal u: History and Structur " we discussed The phenomenon of the Tihami Yemeni Arabic (TYA) pausal /u/ in particular such as ktaab-u “a book”, kutubu “books” and kabiiru “big” versus the pausal phenomenon in Arabic in general such as kitaab “a book”, kutub “books” and kabiir “big”. The status of Arabic pausal forms of indefinite nouns and adjectives in the singular and plural (i.e. their occurrence in pause) is different from that of Tihami Yemeni Arabic (TYA) which has a pausal /u/.

I am planning to revise and revisit this paper to add Typological Analysis searching for Pausal Forms in other Languages?

 What are Pausal Forms in other Languages?

I invite members to provide me some examples of pausal forms of their languages especially of the nouns and adjectives "book" and "big" in the singular and plural forms; is the pausal form a "Vowel-Final-Position" or "Consonant-Final-Position"?

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