Tense and text in classical Arabic a discourse-oriented study of the classical Arabic tense system

In Tense and Text in Classical Arabic , Michal Marmorstein presents a new discourse-oriented analysis of the indicative tense system in Classical Arabic. Critical of commonly held assumptions regarding the binary structure of the tense system and the perfect-imperfect asymmetry, the author redefines...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Marmorstein, Michal, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, M.A. : Brill [2016].
Colección:Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 85.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432594506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The verb in Arabic grammatical tradition
  • The verb in Arabistic literature
  • The structure of context
  • The verbal inventory
  • The syntagmatic structure of the clause
  • The verbal paradigm in embedded clauses
  • The predicative paradigm
  • The verbal paradigm in the narrative
  • The verbal paradigm in the generic utterance
  • Conclusions.