A Comparative Lexical Study of Qur?anic Arabic

568 CHAPTER FIVE
1 . Only in SS H
2. Only in NWS - + - -
3. Only in Ug. - - + -
4. Only in ES +
5. SS-NWS + + --
6. Ug.-ES - - + +
7. SS-ES + -- +
8. NWS-Ug. - + + -
9. SS-Ug. + - + -
10. NWS-ES - + - +
11. SS-NWS-Ug. + + +-
12. NWS-Ug.-ES - + + +
13. SS-Ug.-ES +- + +
14. SS-NWS-ES + + - +
15. SS-NWS-ES + + ( \ )
16. SS-NWS-Ug.-ES + + + +
17. SS-NWS-Ug.-ES 9 +
18. Nowhere in Semitic
Table 8
[+ \ \\]
[\ + \ \]
[\ \ + \]
[ \ \ \ + ]
[+ + \ \]
[ \ \ + + ]
[ + \ \ + ]
[ \ + + \ ]
[+ \ + \]
[ \ + \ + ]
[+ + + \]
[ \ + + + ]
[ + \ + + ]
152 (8.9%) [765 (44.6%)]
161 (9.4%) [879 (51.2%)]
16 (0.9%) [395 (23.0%)]
16 (0.9%) [414(24.1%)]
156 (9.1%) [569 (33.1%)]
2 (0.1%) [248 (14.4%)]
8 (0.5%) [312 (18.2%)]
23 (1.3%) [365 (21.3%)]
9 (0.5%) [316 (18.4%)]
45 (2.6%) [384 (22.4%)]
74 (4.3%) [306(17.8%)]
22 (1.3%) [245 (14.3%)]
0 (0%) [ 0 (0 %)]
71 (4.1%)
301 (17.5%)
216 (12.6%)
82 (4.8%)
535 (31.1%)
In this table, two separate calculations have been carried out. The
first calculation takes into account the cognates of Arabic lexemes
attested exclusively in one particular area of Semitic (patterns 1 to
4), in two areas (patterns 5 to 10), in three areas (patterns 11 to
15), 6 and in all the four areas (16 to 17). 7 Distribution pattern 18
has to do with Arabic lexemes for which no cognates have been
found in any of the Semitic languages under consideration.
In the second calculation, whose results are shown within square
brackets, the number of cognates in the various patterns of distribution
ignore the other areas of Semitic (shown with the symbol \). 8
6
Distribution pattern 15 refers to cognates attested in any language of three
areal subdivisions (excluding Ugaritic). Thus, pattern 15 ignores Ug. (that is no
computer 'filtering' was done in the Ug. column, thus + + \ +). This way, a
different result from the one in pattern 14 (in which Ug. is included in the filtering:
+ H— +) is obtained.
7
Pattern 17 takes into account cognates attested in all of the nine languages of
the corpus.
8
This means that whenever a search for cognates (by means of computer 'filtering',
that is instructing the computer to retrieve information only from specific 'fields')