<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Arabic-L: Sat 29 May 2010</div><div>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]</div><div>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to <a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a></div><div> with first line reading:</div><div> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>1) Subject:Dual in MSA refs needed</div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div>1)</div><div>Date: 29 May 2010</div><div>From:Mai Zaki <<a href="mailto:maizaki@gmail.com">maizaki@gmail.com</a>></div><div>Subject:Dual in MSA refs needed</div><div><br></div><div>Hello all, <br><br>Does anyone know of any reference that discusses the continuing decrease of using the dual forms in MSA and the reasons/alternatives for it? I am particularly interested in the dual forms of the demonstratives, but also any general study about the dual forms would be interesting for me.<br><br>Thanks a lot.<br><br>Mai Zaki<br>Middlesex University<br><br></div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>End of Arabic-L: 29 May 2010</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br></body></html>