<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Mon 25 April 2011<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: Relative Clause-Prepositional Phrase responses<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 25 April 2011<br>From: <<a href="mailto:mcredi@cloud9.net">mcredi@cloud9.net</a>><br>Subject: Relative Clause-Prepositional Phrase responses<div><br></div><div>[the Arabic script was wrecked on his previous post, so he has reposted with transliteration--dil]</div><div><br></div><div>For the benefit of the reader, let me transliterate the Arabic text<br><br>Nowhere in the Arab grammarians study of Arabic grammar is there a <br>recognition of the relative clause. The notion of relative clause as <br>it is understood in other languages is unknown to the Arab <br>grammarians. The technical term itself of "relative clause" does not <br>exist in Arabic. The way the Arab grammarians explain this phenomenon <br>is as follows: "al-jumal bacda al-nakiraat sifaat wa-bacda al-macaarif <br>ahwaal". This means that a relative clause whose antecedent is <br>indefinite and consequently does not have a relative pronoun is <br>considered "a sifa" and the grammarians call it "jumlat al-sifa"; a <br>relative clause whose antecedent is definite and consequently has a <br>relative pronoun is "haal" and the grammarians call it "silat <br>al-mawsuul".<br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 25 April 2011</div></body></html>