Arabic-L:LING:Discordant Agreement Responses

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1) Subject: Discordant Agreement Responses
2) Subject: Discordant Agreement Responses

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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: Discordant Agreement Responses

Iraqis would not say /gahwa (or qahwa) turki/, neither Sa:buuna Halebi, but
they use in that manner, for instance, the word /bla:di/ = genuin, i.e. from
the country where something is originaly produced :

adawa:t bla:di, or quTa3 bla:di (= genuin spare parts).

Whether such things occur in the final position only I cannot say at the
moment, but it is most probable.

Srpko Lestaric

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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Discordant Agreement Responses

Hi,

   I was taught that 'ahwa did NOT take feminine agreement, and correctly
or not, I have modeled the "discordant" agr as being a function of 'ahwa
and not anything to with the adjective.

   The other one that I have heard everybody (including Dave Wilmsen)
comment on is taani, especially in Egyptian beingg frozen in masculine
form.

for what it is worth,
Andy

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