Tense and text in classical Arabic : a discourse-oriented study of the classical Arabic tense system / by Michal Marmorstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marmorstein, Michal.

Series:

Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 85.

Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; v. 85

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Tense.

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Verb.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

Brill 2018

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Tense and Text in Classical Arabic , Michal Marmorstein presents a new discourse-oriented analysis of the indicative tense system in Classical Arabic. Critical of commonly held assumptions regarding the binary structure of the tense system and the perfect-imperfect asymmetry, the author redefines the discussion by analysing the extended syntactic and textual environments in which the paradigm of the indicative forms is used.The study shows that the function of Classical Arabic tenses is determined by the interaction of their inherent grammatical meaning and the overall dialogic, narrative, or generic contexts in which they occur. It also demonstrates the particularizing effect of context, so that temporal and aspectual meanings are always more nuanced, delicate, and pragmatically motivated in actual discourse.

Contents:

Front Matter

Introduction

The Verb in Arabic Grammatical Tradition

The Verb in Arabistic Literature

The Structure of Context

The Verbal Inventory

The Syntagmatic Structure of the Clause

The Verbal Paradigm in Embedded Clauses

The Predicative Paradigm

The Verbal Paradigm in the Dialogue

The Verbal Paradigm in the Narrative

The Verbal Paradigm in the Generic Utterance

Conclusions

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-252) and index.

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004310483

OCLC:

945435648

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004310483 DOI