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Abstract
Most of the Egyptian place names are derived from various languages
that were spoken in Egypt centuries ago. These languages include Ancient
Egyptian, Coptic, Greek, etc. The contact between Arabic, after the Islamic
Advent, and these languages was essential in shaping the forms of the
Egyptian place names. However, other places acquired their names after the
Arab conquest of Egypt, which are similarly of interest to the present
research. This study investigates the socio-morphological alterations that
some of the Egyptian place names have undergone to reach their currently
used forms. For this purpose, the researcher employs the tools of the theory of
Construction Morphology (CM), developed by Booij (2010), under the fabric
of socio-morphology. CM tackles any linguistic unit as a “pairing of form and
meaning” or a function related to that form. Hence, CM is considered one of
the adequate means to conduct this analysis; because it deals with the various
linguistic levels, i.e. phonology, syntax, morphology, and even pragmatics,
on an equal basis, represented by schemas. To meet the goals of the study, the
selected forms are analyzed in order to detect any significant modifications
that they have undergone. The results demonstrate that a large number of
these names were subject to various morpho-phonological alterations in order
to reach the currently used forms, for different reasons. These include socially
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governed purposes, ease of articulation, and the influence of Coptic, which
ceased to generate new forms or schemas. In addition, since schemas in
CM are language specific, new ones had to be developed to account
for the Egyptian place names under analysis.
Keywords: Egyptian place names, Contact Linguistics, Socio-morphology,
word formation processes, Booij’s Construction Morphology (CM),
morphological schemas