Arabic-L:LING:New Book

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Date: 01 Aug 2007
From:mbahloul at gmail.com
Subject:New Book

Routledge has just released a new book that relates to the function  
and struture of the Arabic verb by Maher Bahloul. Here's the link to  
the website and a brief description:

http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/categories/ 
categories_products.asp?parent_id=3516

Structure and Function of the Arabic Verb is a corpus-based study  
that unveils the morpho-syntax and the semantics of the Arabic verb.

Approaches to verbal grammatical categories - the constituents of  
verbal systems - often rely on either semantic-pragmatic or syntactic  
analyses. This research bridges the gap between these two distinct  
approaches through a detailed analysis of Taxis, Aspect, Tense and  
Modality in Standard Arabic. This is accomplished by showing,  
firstly, some basic theoretical concerns shared by both schools of  
thought, and, secondly, the extent to which semantic structures and  
invariant meanings mirror syntactic representations.

Maher Bahloul's findings also indicate that the basic constituents of  
the verbal system in Arabic, namely the Perfect and the Imperfect,  
are systematically differentiated through their invariant semantic  
features in a markedness relation.

Finally, this study suggests that the syntactic derivation of verbal  
and nominal clauses are sensitive to whether or not verbal categories  
are specified for their feature values, providing therefore a  
principled explanation to a long-standing debate.

This reader friendly book will appeal to both specialists and  
students of Arabic linguistics, language and syntax.


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