A Formal Approach to Arabic Syntax
| Author | : Wilhelmus Everhardus Ditters |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Arabic language |
| ISBN | : |
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The Rise of Agreement
| Author | : Eric Fuß |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2005-10-13 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027294143 |
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This book investigates the historical paths leading from pronouns to markers of verbal agreement and proposes a unified formal account of this grammaticalization process. In opposition to beliefs widely held in the literature, it is argued that new agreement formatives can be coined in a multitude of syntactic environments. Still, the individual paths toward agreement are shown to exhibit a set of underlying similarities which are attributed to universal principles that govern the reanalysis of pronominal clitics as exponents of verbal agreement across languages. It is claimed that syntactic principles impose only a set of necessary conditions on the reanalysis in question, while its ultimate trigger is morphological in nature. More specifically, it is argued that the acquisition of inflectional morphology is governed by blocking effects which operate during language acquisition and promote the grammaticalization of new markers if this change serves to replace ‘worn-out’, underspecified forms with new, more specified candidates.
A Formal Approach to Arabic Syntaxis
| Author | : Wilhelmus Everhardus Ditters |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
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Approaches to Arabic Linguistics
| Author | : Harald Motzki |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 794 |
| Release | : 2007-12-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9047422139 |
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For a lifetime Kees Versteegh played a leading role in Arabic linguistics, dialects (diglossia, creolization, pidginization), the history of Arabic grammar, and other fields related to Arabic. From among his global contacts, colleagues contributed to a Liber Amicorum in appreciation of his stimulating efforts to reopen, deepen and complete our knowledge of Arabic Grammar and Linguistics. In three sections, History, Linguistics and Dialects, 27 contributors discuss (alphabetically): bilingual verb construction; contractual language; current developments; language description; language use; lexicology; organization of language; pause; sentence types; and specific topics: ʾallaḏī; featuring; government; homonymy; ʾiḍmār; inflection; maṣdar; the origin of grammatical tradition; variety conflicts; and verbal schematic (ir)regularities; waqf; and ẓarf.
A Formal Approach to Spanish Syntax
| Author | : Jos Hallebeek |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 900465352X |
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A Formal Approach to Arabic Syntax
| Author | : Wilhelmus E. Ditters |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
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Arabic Indefinites, Interrogatives, and Negators
| Author | : David Wilmsen |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2014-10-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0191027960 |
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This book traces the origins and development of the Arabic grammatical marker š/šī, which is found in interrogatives, negators, and indefinite determiners over a broad dialect area that stretches from the southern Levant to North Africa and includes dialects of Yemen and Oman. David Wilmsen draws on data from old vernacular Arabic texts and from a variety of Arabic dialects, and shows that, contrary to much of the literature on the diachrony of this morpheme, š/šī does not derive from Arabic šay 'thing'. Instead, he argues that it dates back to a pre-Arabic stage of West Semitic and probably has its origins in a Semitic demonstrative pronoun. On this theory, Arabic šay could in fact derive from š/šī, and not vice versa. The book demonstrates the significance of the Arabic dialects in understanding the history of Arabic and the Semitic languages, and claims that modern Arabic dialects could not have developed from Classical Arabic. It will be of interest to historical linguists of all persuasions from graduate level upwards, particularly all those working on Arabic and other Semitic languages.
Studies in Arabic Syntax and Semantics
| Author | : Ariel A. Bloch |
| Publisher | : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Arabic language |
| ISBN | : 9783447031479 |
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In view of the great upsurge of interest in syntax in recent years, it is remarkable that there are so few studies of Arabic syntax, and the works of a diachronic orientation are virtually nonexistent. The main portion of this book is historical, dealing with fundamental mechanisms of syntactic and semantic change. Here Bloch has made a substantial contribution to the historical syntax of Arabic. Throughout the book the phenomena are viewed form a broad perspective that takes into account evidence not only from all periods and genres of Arabic (Ancient Poetic, Koranic, Classical, Middle, Modern Literary and Colloquial) but also from other Semitic (and occasionally non-Semitic). In the second printing are almost exclusively corrections of misprints and other minor alterations made.
Kitāb Sībawayhi: Syntax and Pragmatics
| Author | : Amal Marogy |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2017-07-03 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9047440528 |
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This book presents a comprehensive portrait of the Kitāb Sībawayhi. It offers new insights into its historical and linguistic arguments and underlines their strong correlation. The decisive historical argument highlights al-Ḥīra’s role, not only as the centre of pre-Islamic Arabic culture, but also as the matrix within which early Arab linguistics grew and developed. The Kitāb’s value as a communicative grammar forms the crux of the linguistic argument. The complementarity of syntax and pragmatics is established as a condition sine qua non for Sībawayhi’s analysis of language. The benefits of a complementary approach are reflected in the analysis of nominal sentences and related notions of ibtidā’ and definiteness. The pragmatic principle of identifiability is uncovered as the ultimate determiner of word order.
Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar
| Author | : Abdelkader Fassi Fehri |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027255652 |
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In light of recent generative minimalism, and comparative parametric theory of language variation, the book investigates key features and parameters of Arabic grammar. Part I addresses morpho-syntactic and semantic interfaces in temporality, aspectuality, and actionality, including the Past/Perfect/Perfective ambiguity akin to the very synthetic temporal morphology, collocating time adverb construal, and interpretability of verbal Number as pluractional. Part II is dedicated to nominal architecture, the behaviour of bare nouns as true indefinites, the count/mass dichotomy (re-examined in light of general, collective, and singulative DP properties), the mirror image ordering of serialized adjectives, and N-to-D Move in synthetic possession, proper names, and individuated vocatives. Part III examines the role of CP in time and space anchoring, double access reading (in a DAR language such as Arabic), sequence of tense (SOT), silent pronominal categories in consistent null subject languages (including referential and generic pro), and the interpretability of inflection. Semantic and formal parameters are set out, within a mixed macro/micro-parametric model of language variation. The book is of particular interest to students, researchers, and teachers of Arabic, Semitic, comparative, typological, or general linguistics.
