<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Thu 02 Dec 2010<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: semantic approaches to MSA verbs<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 02 Dec 2010<br>From: Ernest N McCarus <<a href="mailto:enm@umich.edu">enm@umich.edu</a>><br>Subject: semantic approaches to MSA verbs<br><br>Dear Paula,<br><br>The semantic classes of verbs that you mention are of auxiliary verbs; <br>the article, "Modern Standard Arabic", in the Encyclopedia of Arabic <br>Language and Linguistics, edited by K. Versteegh et al., Vol. 3, <br>presents a semantic classification of all verbs in terms of <br>progressive, existential, volitional, change-of-state and other kinds <br>of meaning,<br><br>Ernest McCarus<br><br><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 02 Dec 2010</div></body></html>