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Arabic-L: Fri 30 Oct 2009
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1) Subject:hakathaa
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Date: 30 Oct 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:hakathaa
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Dear list members,<br><br>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. <br><br>Thank you.<br><br>Mai Zaki<br>Lecturer in Arabic and Translation Studies<br>Middlesex University<br></span>
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