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Grammaticalization of Arabic prepositions and subordinators : a corpus-based study / by Mohssen Esseesy.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Esseesy, Mohssen.
- Series:
- Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 59.
- Brill eBook titles
- Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; v. 59
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic language--Grammaticalization.
- Arabic language--Prepositional phrases.
- Arabic language--Prepositions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (414 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Previous scholarship on Arabic prepositions typically has presented these as a static closed class of words. Inevitably, such a treatment does not take into account the diachronic development of prepositions into new functions in syntax, semantics and discourse. The present study applies grammaticalization theory to the analysis of prepositions and subordinators across varieties of Arabic. It goes beyond the traditional single-word focus and treats prepositions as parts of multiword complexes. Drawing upon a sizeable base of authentic historical and present-day Arabic data, it presents a rigorously descriptive and quantitative analysis of evolutionary processes involving prepositional forms and subordinators.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Chapter One Background on Language Change in Arabic
- Chapter Two Grammaticalization
- Chapter Three Complex Prepositional Phrases
- Chapter Four Compound-Like Prepositions
- Chapter Five Simple Stem Prepositionals
- Chapter Six Simple Stem “Primary” Prepositions
- Chapter Seven Bound-Stem Prepositional Forms
- Chapter Eight From Preposition to Clause Subordination
- Chapter Nine Causal, Concessive-Conditional, and Concessive Subordinators
- Chapter Ten Summary and Conclusion
- Appendix A
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-369) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781283852005
- 1283852004
- 9789004187634
- 9004187634
- OCLC:
- 810330453
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004187634 DOI
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