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<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1) Subject:</span><font face="arial, sans-serif">NEW BOOK:Copulae in the Arabic Noun Phrase</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date: </span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">27 Aug 2013</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">"GRANDE Francesco" <<a href="mailto:francesco.grande@unive.it" target="_blank">francesco.grande@unive.it</a>></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">NEW BOOK:Copulae in the Arabic Noun Phrase</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">My book, "Copulae in the Arabic Noun Phrase. A Unified Analysis of Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Adnominal Markers" is now available from Brill.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Please find below the book abstract:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Morphemes combined with the Arabic noun are clearly described in the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">literature, but their interpretation can be somewhat nebulous, and a unified</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">scholarly analysis does not as yet exist. This book proposes a new and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">unified perspective regarding these morphemes, analyzing them as copulae,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">and the constructions in which they occur as instances of predication.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Analyzing morphemes combined with the Arabic noun as copulae explains many</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">of their puzzling properties (rise and loss of declension, proteiform nature</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">of nunation, etc.). Emphasis is placed on data previously marginalized in</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">the description of these morphemes, from pre-Classical Arabic transmitted by</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Arab Grammarians, Semitic languages that contributed to the emergence of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Arabic through language contact, and roughly 30 languages genetically</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">unrelated to Arabic.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">All the best,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Francesco Grande,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Researcher in Arabic Language and Literature</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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