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Arabic-L: Wed 26 Aug 2009
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1) Subject:demonstratives again
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Date: 26 Aug 2009
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Mai Zaki <<a href="mailto:maizaki@gmail.com">maizaki@gmail.com</a>></span>
Subject:demonstratives again
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Dear all,<br><br>There have been questions lately about the morphological composition of expressions that include the demonstrative such as "ahakatha" and "kathalika". There have been some good contributions, but I just want to ask one more thing. The forms of demonstratives in MSA are: هذا - هذه - هذان - هاتان - هؤلاء - ذلك - تلك - ذانك - تانك - أولئك. We know that the demonstrative pronoun is "ذا" but this is missing in some of these forms, so how is this explained morphologically and semantically which part carries the demonstrative meaning in the absence of "tha". Also, is there any semantic significance for the absence of "attentional ha" in the distal forms?<br><br>Thank you very much in advance.<br><br>Mai Zaki<br></span>
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