Copulae in the Arabic noun phrase : a unified analysis of Arabic adnominal markers / by Francesco Grande ; with a foreword by Antonella Ghersetti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grande, Francesco.

Series:

Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 70.

Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Noun phrase.

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Sentences.

Arabic language--Noun.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Morphemes combined with the Arabic noun are clearly described in the literature, but their interpretation can be somewhat nebulous, and a unified scholarly analysis does not as yet exist. This book proposes a new and unified perspective regarding these morphemes, analyzing them as copulae, and the constructions in which they occur as instances of predication. Analyzing morphemes combined with the Arabic noun as copulae explains many of their puzzling properties (rise and loss of declension, proteiform nature of nunation, et cetera). Emphasis is placed on data previously marginalized in the description of these morphemes, from pre-Classical Arabic transmitted by Arab Grammarians, Semitic languages that contributed to the emergence of Arabic through language contact, and roughly 30 languages genetically unrelated to Arabic.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

1 Copulae in Arabic and Semitic

2 Arabic Copulae: From Modifiers to Relative Clauses

3 Arabic Copulae: From Relative Clauses to Recursion

4 Arabic Case-Endings as Copulae

5 B eyond Arabic Copulae

Conclusions

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

References

Index of Personal Names

Index of Languages

Subject Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9789004256286

9004256288

OCLC:

857711500

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004256286 DOI