Arabic-L:LING:New Book

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Date: 10 Sep 2007
From:mbahloul at aus.edu
Subject:New Book

Dear Colleague,
I am happy to inform you of the publication of my book entitled  
'Structure and Function  of the Arabic Verb' by Routledge. Feel free  
to forward the attached pdf pages to whoever might be interested.
Have a nice day/evening
Maher

[moderator's note: I can't include the pdf, but the Amazon blurb  
follows:]

Structure and Function of the Arabic Verb is a corpus-based study  
that unveils the morpho-syntax and the semantics of the Arabic verb.

Approaches to verbal grammatical categories - the constituents of  
verbal systems - often rely on either semantic-pragmatic or syntactic  
analyses. This research bridges the gap between these two distinct  
approaches through a detailed analysis of Taxis, Aspect, Tense and  
Modality in Standard Arabic. This is accomplished by showing,  
firstly, some basic theoretical concerns shared by both schools of  
thought, and, secondly, the extent to which semantic structures and  
invariant meanings mirror syntactic representations.

Maher Bahloul’s findings also indicate that the basic constituents of  
the verbal system in Arabic, namely the Perfect and the Imperfect,  
are systematically differentiated through their invariant semantic  
features in a markedness relation.

Finally, this study suggests that the syntactic derivation of verbal  
and nominal clauses are sensitive to whether or not verbal categories  
are specified for their feature values, providing therefore a  
principled explanation to a long-standing debate.

This reader friendly book will appeal to both specialists and  
students of Arabic linguistics, language and syntax.


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