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Arabic indefinites, interrogatives, and negators : a linguistic history of Western dialects /
This volume demonstrates the significance of the Arabic dialects in understanding the history of Arabic and the Semitic languages, and claims that modern Arabic dialects could not have developed from classical Arabic.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ;
14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Arabic Indefinites, Interrogatives, and Negators: A Linguistic History of Western Dialects
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series preface
- List of figures and tables
- Transcription and notation
- 1. Introduction: Theory, conventions, and the assessment of facts
- 1.1 Arabic in linguistic theory
- 1.2 A facts-first approach to theory and a theory-free approach to facts
- 1.3 A guide to the perplexing: chapter summaries
- 1.4 A coming to terms
- 1.5 A repayment of debts
- ""3.8 Negative ši""""3.9 Distribution of ši""; ""3.10 Conclusion""; ""4. Andalusi Arabic negators and interrogatives: Early evidence of grammatical ši""; ""4.1 Indefinite and negative ši in Andalusi Arabic""; ""4.2 A Jespersen�s Cycle?""; ""4.3 Interrogative or negative iš?""; ""4.4 Rhetorical questions in Arabic""; ""4.5 Arabic interrogatives as exclamatives""; ""4.6 Orthographic idiosyncrasies""; ""4.7 Conclusion""; ""5. Interrogation and negation with ši in North African and Levantine Arabic""; ""5.1 Shared retentions in Andalusi Arabic, North African Arabic, and Maltese""
- ""5.2 Copular interrogatives in modern North African dialects""""5.3 A H. Å?rÄ?ni case study""; ""5.4 H.Å?rÄ?ni analogues in other Arabic varieties""; ""5.5 Conclusion""; ""6. Origins of grammatical Å¡i: Southern Arabia or the Levant?""; ""6.1 Possible origins""; ""6.2 A shared West Semitic innovation""; ""6.3 Genera and geography""; ""6.4 Dialects with and without negative Å¡i""; ""6.5 A pre-diaspora southern Arab presence in the Fertile Crescent""; ""6.6 Arab Christians in the pre-Islamic Fertile Crescent""; ""6.7 An ancient Arab presence in the Fertile Crescent""
- ""6.8 Levantine or Yemeni?""""6.9 Conclusion""; ""7. Proto-Semitic and Proto-Arabic origins of grammatical Å¡i""; ""7.1 Early evidence of negator -Å¡""; ""7.2 The Semitics of Å¡i""; ""7.3 Implications for Arabic""; ""7.4 Implications for theory""; ""7.5 Processes of grammaticalization""; ""7.6 Degrammaticalization of Å¡i""; ""7.7 Derivational pathways of grammatical Å¡i""; ""7.8 A reassertion of theory: Croftâ€?s Cycle, not Jespersenâ€?s""; ""7.9 A reaffirmation of an assumption: negating with mÄ? is early""; ""7.10 Conclusion""; ""8. On explanation and theory in Arabic linguistics""