The Arabic Origins of English Pronouns: A Lexical Root Theory Approach

The Arabic Cognates or Origins of Plural Markers in World Languages: A Radical Linguistic Theory Approach

“…Evidence from pronouns in Chinese (Jassem 2014h) and Basque and Finnish (Jassem 2014i) as well as Indo-European pronouns (Jassem 2012c) supports this claim, which shows that all such pronouns have true Arabic cognates or origins. Therefore, to aptly capture the close genetic linkage between European and Arabian languages in general, a new larger language family grouping has been proposed, called Eurabian or Urban (Jassem 2015c: 41;2015d).…”

“…The former examines the inflectional and derivational aspects of words in general (Jassem 2012f, 2013a; the latter handles grammatical classes, categories, and functions like pronouns, determiners, verbs, nouns, prepositions, question words, and case (Jassem 2012c(Jassem -e, 2013l, 2014b(Jassem -c, 2015d). Since their influence on the basic meaning of the lexical root is marginal, inflectional and derivational morphemes may also be ignored altogether.…”

“…In particular, Jassem (2012aJassem ( -f, 2013aJassem ( -q, 2014aJassem ( -k, and 2015a) has shown in forty three studies that Arabic, English, German, French, and the so-called Indo-European languages as a whole are genetically related very closely phonetically, morphologically, grammatically, and semantically or lexically to such an extent that they can all be regarded as dialects of the same language indeed. More precisely, the Arabic origins or cognates of their words were successfully traced in twenty seven lexical studies in key semantic fields like numerals, religious, love, democratic, military, and legal terms (Jassem 2012a(Jassem -d, 2013a(Jassem -q, 2014a(Jassem -k, 2015a; in three morphological studies on inflectional and derivational markers (Jassem 2012f, 2013a; in nine grammatical papers like pronouns, verb 'to be', wh-questions, and case (Jassem 2012c(Jassem -e, 2013l, 2014c(Jassem , 2015d; and in one phonetic study about the English, German, French, Latin, and Greek cognates of Arabic back consonants (Jassem 2013c). In the second stage, it was extended to trace the Arabic origins of pronouns in Mandarin Chinese (Jassem 2014h) and Basque and Finnish (Jassem 2014i).…”

The Arabic Origins of English and Indo-European "Fashion and Modeling Terms": A Radical Linguistic Theory Approach

“…More precisely, the Arabic origins or cognates of their words were successfully traced in twenty seven lexical studies in key semantic fields like numerals, religious, love, democratic, military, legal, urban, and floral terms (Jassem 2012a(Jassem -d, 2013a(Jassem -q, 2014a(Jassem -k, 2015a(Jassem -h, 2016b; in three morphological studies on inflectional and derivational markers (Jassem 2012f, 2013a; in nine grammatical papers like pronouns, verb 'to be', wh-questions, and case (Jassem 2012c(Jassem -e, 2013l, 2014c(Jassem , 2015d; and in one phonetic study about the English, German, French, Latin, and Greek cognates of Arabic back consonants (Jassem 2013c). Furthermore, the theory was extended in another five even wider studies to the examination of the Arabic origins of pronouns in Chinese (Jassem 2014h) and Basque and Finnish (Jassem 2014i), demonstratives (Jassem 2015i), negation (Jassem 2015j), and plurality (Jassem 2016a) in eleven major (and minor) language families in the last three especially, which make up 95% of the total world population.…”

“…The theory first arose as a rejection of the Family Tree Model or Comparative Method in historical linguistics for classifying Arabic as a member of a different language family than English, German, French, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and the so-called Indo-European languages (Bergs and earlier work for a fuller account of principles, precepts, and procedures (e.g., Jassem 2015aJassem -c, 2014aJassem , 2013aJassem , 2012a.…”