Studies in Arabic Syntax and Semantics

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1 Studies in Arabic Syntax and Semantics Bearbeitet von Ariel A Bloch Neuausgabe Taschenbuch. XXII, 140 S. Paperback ISBN Format (B x L): 170 x 240 cm Gewicht: 330 g Weitere Fachgebiete > Literatur, Sprache > Sprachwissenschaften Allgemein > Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie schnell und portofrei erhältlich bei Die Online-Fachbuchhandlung beck-shop.de ist spezialisiert auf Fachbücher, insbesondere Recht, Steuern und Wirtschaft. Im Sortiment finden Sie alle Medien (Bücher, Zeitschriften, CDs, ebooks, etc.) aller Verlage. Ergänzt wird das Programm durch Services wie Neuerscheinungsdienst oder Zusammenstellungen von Büchern zu Sonderpreisen. Der Shop führt mehr als 8 Millionen Produkte.

2 Ariel A. Bloch Studies in Arabic Syntax and Semantics Second revised printing 1991 Otto Harrassowitz Wiesbaden

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4 Contents Abbreviations X Preface XIV I A Principle of Balancing 1. Pronoun Reduplication Pronoun Reduplication for Focusing Pronoun Reduplication in Coordination Evidence from Medieval Grammarians and Modern Colloquials Pronoun Reduplication in Apposition Balancing Stress as a Balancing Device Pronoun Reduplication and Stress The Two Uses of Pronoun Reduplication Contrasted 10. Coordinative vs. Comitative, Appositive vs. Vocative 11. Conclusion li Direct and Indirect Relative Clauses. 1. Method of Presentation The Two Modes of Reference 3. Definitions Specificity The Notion of Category 6. Contextual Criteria The Emphatic Indirect Relative Clause 8. Vocativic Utterances Metaphors Historical Reconstruction The Medieval Grammarians' Approach. 12. The Presentation in the Western Standard Grammars 13. The Broader Phenomenon

5 VIII Contcnts 14. Conclusion III "Be With" > "Encounter", "Come With" > "Bring" From Comitativity to Objecthood The Notion of the "Envisaged Scene" The "Movement With" Notion Hierarchical Comitativity Bravmann's Theory Conclusion IV Presentative Structures and Their Syntactic and Semantic Development lntroduction Nuclear, Amplified and Proclitic Structure The Semantics of the Three Structures Unmarked Sentences: The Role of the Semantics From Amplified to Proclitic Structure by Syntactic Reanalysis The Special History ofpronominal Nuclear Structures The nuclear pattern hä huwa 4ä and its development The pattern in the Qur'än The invariable pattern lncorporation of the post-nuclear substantival appositive The affective base The development of the incorporating substantival nuclear structure lncorporation of the post-nuclear locative appositive The special position of pronominal nuclear structures Conclusion V The Historical Syntax and Semantics of inna The Function of inna Description The!arger picture : Devices functionally corresponding to inna Difference from other "emphasizing" devices, notably those for focusing and topicalization OS 1.4 U se of inna as an independent morpheme The bi-directionality of inna

6 Contt:nts IX ln na Zaydan: Vestiges of a Historically Primary N uclear Structure The evidence The semantic range in a general linguistic perspective The acco of the head and other expressions of case notions The medieval grammarians' deletion hypothesis and its modern counterpart The syntactic and semantic development The Biblical Hebrew evidence The modern colloquial evidence Conclusion Indices