Arabic-L:LING:hakathaa

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Date: 30 Oct 2009
From:Mai Zaki <maizaki at gmail.com>
Subject:hakathaa

Dear list members,

I want to ask about this expression: hakathaa هكذا. Is it  
considered a demonstrative or a discourse marker? Is this a new  
combination of the demonstrative morpheme /tha/ with the /ha/ for  
attention and the /ka/ for similarity, or does it exist in Classical  
Arabic? For example, this term is not mentioned in the Quran. I would  
appreciate your thoughts.

Thank you.

Mai Zaki
Lecturer in Arabic and Translation Studies
Middlesex University

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