Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs on Arabic demonstratives

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Date: 28 Nov 2006
From:"Mai Zaki" <maizaki at gmail.com>
Subject:Needs refs on Arabic demonstratives

Hello everyone,

I am doing a contrastive semantic/pragmatic corpus-based study on  
demonstratives in English and Arabic. I would appreciate any  
information about papers/books/theses specifically about this topic,  
or about Arabic demonstratives in general.

Also, I have a couple of questions. First, I want to ask about the  
etymological and morphological links between the forms "hatha,  
hathihi, ha?ula?" as deriving from the same morpheme "ha" and if that  
has been mentioned in any study to have semantic implications as  
well. In this case also I wonder if the other forms "thalika",  
"tilka" and "?ula?ik" etymologically belong to a different origin.  
Second, I read in a couple of old grammar books that the phoneme "ha"  
is phonologically used for attracting attention, so I wanted to check  
if this phenomenon is well established in Arabic phonology (does it  
also apply to other lexical forms?) in order to correctly assess the  
implications of this on the semantics of these forms.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Mai Zaki

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