Gender polarity is an intriguing morphological phenomenon in Arabic. The numerals 3–10 take the gender opposite to that of their count nouns; that is, when the count noun is feminine, the numerals 3–10 appear in the masculine form, and vice versa. Earlier analyses (see, e.g., Alqassas 2013, 2017, Alqarni 2015) proposed that the numerals 3–10 bear an inherent feminine feature, which is deleted by an impoverishment rule in the presence of a feminine feature on the count noun, yielding gender polarity. This article provides empirical counterevidence to these analyses and the concept of gender polarity on the whole. It shows that the numerals 3–10 do not interact with the gender of the count noun; rather, they interact with the count noun’s morphology—that is, whether the count noun bears the morpheme /at/ or /a:tu/-/a:ti/ in its structure. These findings suggest that gender polarity in Arabic is a misnomer; the phenomenon should instead be termed morpheme polarity. Rather than implementing the impoverishment rules proposed in earlier analyses, this article uses readjustment rules to account for the morpheme polarity at hand.

中文翻译：

---

阿拉伯数字短语中没有性别极性

性别极性是阿拉伯语中一种令人着迷的形态现象。数字3-10的性别与计数名词的性别相反；也就是说，当计数名词是女性时，数字3-10以男性形式出现，反之亦然。较早的分析（例如，参见Alqassas 2013、2017，Alqarni 2015）建议数字3-10具有固有的女性特征，当计数名词上存在女性特征时，该规则会被贫困规则删除，从而产生性别极性。本文为这些分析和总体上的性别极性概念提供了经验反证。它表明数字3–10与计数名词的性别不相互作用；相反，它们与计数名词的形态相互作用-也就是说，计数名词的结构中是否带有词素/ at /或/ a：tu /-/ a​​：ti /。这些发现表明，阿拉伯语中的性别极性是不正确的。该现象应改为语素极性。本文没有执行先前分析中提出的贫困规则，而是使用重新调整规则来说明当前的词素极性。