Arabic-L:LING:use of ll-

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 08 Apr 2008
From:jonathanlange at yahoo.com
Subject:use of ll-
> There's al-mu3arrif (a "definite article") omitted in your question,  
> so the whole construction falls apart. The exacte title reads "miSr  
> li-T-Tayaraan" (no "double" yaa' in Tayaraan!) and is an example of  
> ellipsis as it stays for "sharika miSr li-T-Tayaraan". Knowing that,  
> you see that everything is simple and in place.

Dil,

This response doesn't make sense to me.  This
grammatical pattern seems in many ways to me to be an
attempt at an imitation of indo-european compound word
syntax (Egypt Airlines = 'Misr l-l-Tayyaraan').  Am I
missing something?

-J

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