30.281, Books: Lebanese Arabic Clitics: A Typological Study: Al-Bekai

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Subject: 30.281, Books: Lebanese Arabic Clitics: A Typological Study: Al-Bekai

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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:16:31
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Lebanese Arabic Clitics: A Typological Study: Al-Bekai

 


Title: Lebanese Arabic Clitics: A Typological Study 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics 38  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: lincom-shop.eu/LSAAL-38-Lebanese-Arabic-Clitics-A-Typological-Study/en 


Author: Wassim Al-Bekai

Hardback: ISBN:  9783862889235 Pages: 128 Price: Europe EURO 96.80


Abstract:

The main concern of the proposed book is the study of pronominal markers in
the Lebanese Arabic dialect (LA). In spite of a huge literature on this
problem within European languages, as yet little research has been conducted
on these elements in the LA dialect. The goal is to describe and analyze the
pronominal markers attached to three different syntactic categories: verbs,
prepositions and nouns. A description and analysis of LA subject and object
markers attached to verbs is carried out. The aim is to test the status of
these markers and to determine whether they are clitics or affixes. Central to
our discussion is the ordering of objects in ditransitive verbs and the
phenomenon of clitic doubling. The same path of research is followed by
studying the object markers attached to transitive prepositions. 

The final syntactic category under investigation is nouns. The possessive
markers attached to nouns are considered clitics. These clitics in turn can be
substituted by a full noun phrase forming the so-called construct state. It is
argued that the second element in these constructions is a syntactically
dependent element or a quasi-clitic. In addition, the construct state
constructions along with other constructions such as the spurious construct
state (SCS) are dealt with from a typological perspective of head-marking
versus dependent-marking.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Arabic, North Levantine (apc)


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=133593




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