Research Catalog

Title

The syntax of Arabic / Joseph E. Aoun, Elabbas Benmamoun, Lina Choueiri.

Author

Aoun, Joseph.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Benmamoun, Elabbas.
• Choueiri, Lina.

Description

ix, 247 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Recent research on the syntax of Arabic has produced valuable literature on the major syntactic phenomena found in the language. This guide to Arabic syntax provides an overview of the major syntactic constructions in Arabic that have featured in recent linguistic debates, and discusses the analyses provided for them in the literature. A broad variety of topics are covered, including argument structure, negation, tense, agreement phenomena, and resumption. The discussion of each topic sums up the key research results and provides new points of departure for further research. The book also contrasts Standard Arabic with other Arabic varieties spoken in the Arab world. An engaging guide to Arabic syntax, this book will be invaluable to graduate students interested in Arabic grammar, as well as syntactic theorists and typologists"--Provided by publisher.
• "This guide to Arabic syntax provides an overview of the major syntactic constructions in Arabic that have featured in recent linguistic debates, and discusses the analyses provided for them in the literature.Abroad variety of topics is covered, including argument structure, negation, tense, agreement phenomena, and resumption. The discussion of each topic sums up the key research results and provides new points of departure for further research. The book also contrasts Standard Arabic with other Arabic varieties spoken in the Arab world"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Cambridge syntax guides

Uniform Title

Cambridge syntax guides.

Subject

Arabic language > Syntax

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Issues in the syntax of Arabic -- Clause structure in Arabic -- The syntax of subjects -- Sentential agreement -- The syntax of sentential negation -- Modes of wh-interrogation -- Restrictive relatives -- Clitic-left dislocation and focus constructions -- The syntax of the Arabic left periphery.

ISBN

• 9780521650175 (hbk.)
• 0521650178 (hbk.)
• 9780521659864 (pbk.)
• 0521659868 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009031399

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library