The vowel of middle figure of trilateral non-affix present tense verb of the fa-‘a-la form : A statistical analytical study on Al-Wasit dictionary

This article studies the middle figure’s vowel of non-affix trilateral verb in its present tense form from one charter only which is “fa’ala”.It exposes and discusses the views of ancient grammarians and new and contemporary linguists regarding the issue.It also tests some ancient theories which arose in attempt to determine the vowel of the figure.The sourse of verbs that the researcher depends on in his study is “ Mu’jam al-Wasit”,a trusted modern dictionary,to match his interest in studying the contemporary Arabic Language.The researcher has statistically counted those verbs from the respected dictionary and categorized them according to their middle figure to look at every figure that occupies that middle position,and to determine its tendency toward any of three vowels (fathah or kasrah or dhammah) when located together with other figure after him.The researcher also has proven and recognized some of ancient theories which should not be neglected in teaching morphology particularly to non-native speaker of Arabic and was able to determine the tendency of every figure that occupies the middle position toward any of the two vowels for those which their middle figure is not throat’s letter based on that,he suggested some morphological bases to determine the vowel of that middle figure.