Arabic-L:LING:use of ll-

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Date: 09 Apr 2008
From: Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:use of ll-

This specific example --sharikat miSr liTTayaraan, شركة مصر  
للطيران--  might
warrant a different interpretation.
The company name is miSr (مصر).  Hence one gets شركة مصر,  
which loosely
means: The Egypt Company.  At this juncture, when introducing the term
'aviation' (or a term to that effect), one can get something like:
شركة طيران مصر, which is a problem because مصر can be an  
amplifying term to
either شركة or طيران.
It is not possible to do شركة مصر and then follow that construct  
with the
term طيران:
*شركة مصر طيران.
In such instances, the لِ provides a solution: شركة مصر  
للطيران.
There are several such companies in Egypt whose name begins with  
شركة مصر:
The Egypt Company (for something or another):
شركة مصر للألومنيوم
شركة مصر لإدارة الأصول العقارية
شركة مصر للغزل والنسيج

The use of "li" to break up an idafa is common.  One reason seems to  
be to
disambiguate without being obliged to use case marking; والله  
أعلم.

Waheed

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