<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Wed 01 Jun 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: New Book:the Arabic Verb<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 01 Jun 2011<br>From: reposted from LINGUIST<br>Subject: New Book:the Arabic Verb<br><br>Title: The Arabic Verb <br>Subtitle: Form and meaning in the vowel-lengthening patterns <br>Series Title: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 63 <br><br>Publication Year: 2011 <br>Publisher: John Benjamins<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> <a href="http://www.benjamins.com/">http://www.benjamins.com/</a><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br><br>Book URL: <a href="http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SFSL%2063">http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SFSL%2063</a> <br><br><br>Author: Warwick Danks<br><br>Electronic: ISBN: 9789027286956 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00<br>Electronic: ISBN: 9789027286956 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00<br>Hardback: ISBN: 9789027215734 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 105.00<br>Hardback: ISBN: 9789027215734 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00<br>Hardback: ISBN: 9789027215734 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 111.30<br><br><br>Abstract:<br><br>The Arabic verbal system is, for most grammarians, the keystone of <br>the language. Notable for the regularity of its patterns, it presents the <br>linguist with an unparalleled opportunity to explore the Saussurean <br>notion of the indivisible sign: form and meaning. Whilst Arabic forms <br>are well-documented, the elucidation of the corresponding meanings <br>has proved more challenging. Beginning with an examination of the <br>verbal morphology of Modern Standard Arabic, including an evaluation <br>of the significance of the consonantal root, this volume then <br>concentrates on establishing the function of the vowel-lengthening <br>verbal patterns (III and VI). It explores issues of mutuality and <br>reciprocity, valency and transitivity, ultimately focusing on atelic <br>lexical aspect as the unified meaning of these patterns. This study is <br>rich in data and relies extensively upon contemporary examples (with <br>transliteration and translation) to illustrate its arguments, adopting an <br>empirical structuralist approach which is aimed both at general <br>linguists and at specialist Arabists. <br><br><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 01 Jun 2011</div></body></html>