Key features and parameters in Arabic grammar / Abdelkader Fassi Fehri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fassi Fehri, Abdelkader.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 182.

Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today ; v. 182

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Grammar.

Arabic language.

Physical Description:

xx, 358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2012]

Contents:

1 Foreword p. xv

2 Provenance of Chapters p. xix

3 Part I. Temporality, aspect, voice, and event structure

4 Chapter 1. Tense/Aspect interaction and variation p. 1

5 Chapter 2. Transitivity, causativity, and verbal plurality p. 27

6 Chapter 3. Synthetic/analytic asymmetries in voice and temporal patterns p. 61

7 Chapter 4. Arabic Perfect and temporal adverbs p. 93

8 Part II. DP, np, bareness, and count/mass structures

9 Chapter 5. The grammar of count and mass p. 119

10 Chapter 6. Synthesis in Arabic DPs p. 153

11 Chapter 7. Bare, generic, mass, and referential DPs p. 179

12 Chapter 8. Determination parameters in the Arabic and Semitic diglossia p. 205

13 Part III. Clausal structure, silent pronouns, and Agree

14 Chapter 9. Time/space anchors, logophors, finiteness, and (un)interpretability of inflection p. 233

15 Chapter 10. Arabic silent pronouns, person, and voice p. 257

16 Chapter 11. Plural verbs and Agree p. 291

17 References p. 329

18 Index p. 349.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027255655

9027255652

9789027274960

9027274967

OCLC:

761369237