A contrastive study of noun forming affixes in English and Arabic morpheme : a morphological analysis

الملخص EN

This research is an attempt to explore a morphological phenomenon of noun forming affixes in English and Arabic stems.

This paper belongs to the morphological features of English and Arabic languages.

This paper compares between the construction of words whether they are nouns, verbs and adjectives.

This comparison involves certain aspect which is morphological feature of English and Arabic respectively.

This paper focuses on the differentiated forming the nouns in two languages which are English and Arabic.

So, derivational patterns commonly change the word class of the base lexeme i.e., nouns can be derived from verbs, adjectives or from another noun and so on.

For such cases, the terms denominal (noun derived from noun), deverbal (noun derived from a verb) and deadjectival (noun derived from an adjective) are in general use.