Arabic-L:LING:Indirect Marking of Objects query

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Date: 06 Mar 2003
From: Ahmed Brahim <Ahmed.Brahim at flm.rnu.tn>
Subject:Indirect Marking of Objects query


                                          Indirect marking of direct  
objects
 
I am currently working on progresive aspect marking of transitive verbs  
in Arabic and Berber dialects in Tunisia by means of a locative  
preposition (Ex. Tun A "fi:" = 'in' ) introducing the object (b):
     (a) na:kl-u l-kusksi
         1PL-eat/IMPERF-1PL the-couscous
         ' We (usually) eat couscous'
     (b) na:kl-u                      fi: l-kusksi
         1PL-eat/IMPERF-1PL in the-couscous
         ' We are eating couscous'
Are there (recent) studies on the distribution and the meaning of this  
kind of indirect marking of objects - which are normally direct ones-  
in other North African Arabic and Berber dialects?
 Best regards
Ahmed Brahim   
UR "Langage et Métalangage"
Université de Tunis Manouba

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