
Circumstantial Qualifiers in Semitic
The case of Arabic and Hebrew
Bo Isaksson(Editor)
Harrassowitz Verlag
1st Edition
Published in December 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVII, 289 pages
978-3-447-06111-7 (ISBN)
Description
With inspiration from the Arabic hal-concept this book investigates circumstantial clauses in Arabic and Hebrew. It formulates a modern linguistic definition of the concept of 'circumstantial qualifier' and offers corpus-based pilot studies on circumstantial qualifiers in Pre-classical and Classical Arabic, Pre-exilic Hebrew, Modern literary Arabic and Modern spoken Gulf Arabic. With 'circumstantial clause combining' as the basic analytic concept Bo Isaksson presents a study of comparative ancient Arabic and ancient Hebrew text linguistics applied to a corpus of narrative prose texts. As a corollary Isaksson also presents a reconsideration of the so-called 'tenses' in Arabic and Hebrew. Helene Kammensjo investigates the logic behind the remarkable variation of circumstantial qualifiers (CQ) in a choice of Arabic novels from the two last decades. Her approach is to pick out a few frequent CQ constructions and do a systematic study. Maria Persson surveys the forms and functions of CQs both separately and in relation to their head clauses and discusses areas of grammaticalization and ambiguity related to CQs in Gulf Arabic dialects on the basis of texts from her own field studies.
More details
Series
Edition
1., Aufl.
Language
English
Place of publication
Wiesbaden
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 22 cm
Width: 14.5 cm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-447-06111-7 (9783447061117)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Author
ISNI: 0000 0001 0929 8913 GND: 106049809X
ISNI: 0000 0001 0929 8921 GND: 1146831803
Editor
ISNI: 0000 0001 0929 8913 GND: 106049809X