Table 1:
Non-concatenative morphology in Arabic.3 When conjugating, letters are interleaved within the root. The root is therefore not separable from its inflection via any contiguous split.
 | k-t-b | “write” (root form) |
 | kataba | “he wrote” |
 | kattaba | “he made (someone) write” |
 | iktataba | “he signed up” |
| | k-t-b | “write” (root form) |
| | kataba | “he wrote” |
| | kattaba | “he made (someone) write” |
| | iktataba | “he signed up” |