By Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
ISBN-10: 9027255652
ISBN-13: 9789027255655
In mild of modern generative minimalism, and comparative parametric concept of language edition, the booklet investigates key good points and parameters of Arabic grammar. half I addresses morpho-syntactic and semantic interfaces in temporality, aspectuality, and actionality, together with the Past/Perfect/Perfective ambiguity similar to the very man made temporal morphology, collocating time adverb construal, and interpretability of verbal quantity as pluractional. half II is devoted to nominal structure, the behaviour of naked nouns as precise indefinites, the count/mass dichotomy (re-examined in gentle of common, collective, and singulative DP properties), the replicate snapshot ordering of serialized adjectives, and N-to-D flow in man made ownership, right names, and individuated vocatives. half III examines the function of CP in time and area anchoring, double entry studying (in a DAR language equivalent to Arabic), series of annoying (SOT), silent pronominal different types in constant null topic languages (including referential and common pro), and the interpretability of inflection. Semantic and formal parameters are set out, inside a combined macro/micro-parametric version of language edition. The e-book is of specific curiosity to scholars, researchers, and lecturers of Arabic, Semitic, comparative, typological, or normal linguistics.
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21 Imperfect is non-ante1"im·, usually simultaneous, expressing a within relation. 22 I can then conclude that the Arabic Present is morphologically (or morphosyntactically) expressed, although it interacts interestingly with Imperfective. PT also expresses Imperfect, which is distinct from Imperfective. This morphology turns out then to be one of "tense" (Present or Imperfect), rather than "aspect': Imperfective can be associated with these tenses, and we will return to further clarifications on this interaction, after examining other specific contexts in which PT is used as Imperfect.
With interpretations which are traditionally thought of as aspectual in nature. Moreover, the transitive (a) and the aspectual (b) uses (or alternations) are normally taken to be non-related, and hence no unifying treatment of them has been proposed. 2 Problem 2: Transitivity theory What is the source of transitivity? Does it arise from a VP shell structure (Larson 1988), the projection of little v (Chomsky 1995), or the projection of Voice (Kratzer 1996)? Chomsky (1995, 1998), relying on work by Larson (ibid) and Hale & Keyser (1993; passim) proposed that transitivity arises through a v functional head, which is external to the projection of VP.
But note now that with Imperfect Future, the in-X test is completely felicitous: (41) y-aqtaru r-rajul-u l-masaafat-a gad-an fii saarat-in 3-cross the-man-NOM the-distance-Ace tomorrow in hour-GEN The man will cross the distance tomorrow in an hour. The same result obtains with achievements. The common behaviour of Future and Past/Perfect vis-a-vis the in-X test, as opposed to that of the Present, indicates that the difference is due to the value of Perfectivity; associated with Tense: Past/Perfect and Future are perfective, whereas Present is imperfective.
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