A Formal Approach to Arabic Syntax
Title | A Formal Approach to Arabic Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | Wilhelmus Everhardus Ditters |
Publisher | |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Arabic language |
ISBN |
The Rise of Agreement
Title | The Rise of Agreement PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Fuß |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2005-10-13 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027294143 |
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
Title | A Formal Approach to Arabic Syntaxis PDF eBook |
Author | Wilhelmus Everhardus Ditters |
Publisher | |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Approaches to Arabic Linguistics
Title | Approaches to Arabic Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Harald Motzki |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 794 |
Release | 2007-12-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9047422139 |
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
Title | A Formal Approach to Spanish Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | Jos Hallebeek |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 900465352X |
A Formal Approach to Arabic Syntax
Title | A Formal Approach to Arabic Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | Wilhelmus E. Ditters |
Publisher | |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Syntax of Arabic
Title | The Syntax of Arabic PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph E. Aoun |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0521650178 |
A guide to Arabic syntax covering a broad variety of topics including argument structure, negation, tense, agreement phenomena, and resumption. The discussion of each topic sums up the key research results and provides new points of departure for further research.