
Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri(Author)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 1. February 2012
Book
Hardback
358 pages
978-90-272-5565-5 (ISBN)
Description
In light of recent generative minimalism, and comparative parametric theory of language variation, the book investigates key features and parameters of Arabic grammar. Part I addresses morpho-syntactic and semantic interfaces in temporality, aspectuality, and actionality, including the Past/Perfect/Perfective ambiguity akin to the very synthetic temporal morphology, collocating time adverb construal, and interpretability of verbal Number as pluractional. Part II is dedicated to nominal architecture, the behaviour of bare nouns as true indefinites, the count/mass dichotomy (re-examined in light of general, collective, and singulative DP properties), the mirror image ordering of serialized adjectives, and N-to-D Move in synthetic possession, proper names, and individuated vocatives. Part III examines the role of CP in time and space anchoring, double access reading (in a DAR language such as Arabic), sequence of tense (SOT), silent pronominal categories in consistent null subject languages (including referential and generic pro), and the interpretability of inflection. Semantic and formal parameters are set out, within a mixed macro/micro-parametric model of language variation. The book is of particular interest to students, researchers, and teachers of Arabic, Semitic, comparative, typological, or general linguistics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
820 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5565-5 (9789027255655)
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Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar
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Content
1. Foreword; 2. Provenance of Chapters; 3. Part I. Temporality, aspect, voice, and event structure; 4. Chapter 1. Tense/Aspect interaction and variation; 5. Chapter 2. Transitivity, causativity, and verbal plurality; 6. Chapter 3. Synthetic/analytic asymmetries in voice and temporal patterns; 7. Chapter 4. Arabic Perfect and temporal adverbs; 8. Part II. DP, np, bareness, and count/mass structures; 9. Chapter 5. The grammar of count and mass; 10. Chapter 6. Synthesis in Arabic DPs; 11. Chapter 7. Bare, generic, mass, and referential DPs; 12. Chapter 8. Determination parameters in the Arabic and Semitic diglossia; 13. Part III. Clausal structure, silent pronouns, and Agree; 14. Chapter 9. Time/space anchors, logophors, finiteness, and (un)interpretability of inflection; 15. Chapter 10. Arabic silent pronouns, person, and voice; 16. Chapter 11. Plural verbs and Agree; 17. References; 18. Index