Arabic-L:LING:demonstratives again

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Date: 26 Aug 2009
From:Mai Zaki <maizaki at gmail.com>
Subject:demonstratives again

Dear all,

There have been questions lately about the morphological composition  
of expressions that include the demonstrative such as "ahakatha" and  
"kathalika". There have been some good contributions, but I just want  
to ask one more thing. The forms of demonstratives in MSA are: هذا -  
هذه - هذان - هاتان - هؤلاء - ذلك - تلك -  
ذانك - تانك - أولئك. We know that the demonstrative  
pronoun is "ذا" but this is missing in some of these forms, so how is  
this explained morphologically and semantically which part carries the  
demonstrative meaning in the absence of "tha". Also, is there any  
semantic significance for the absence of "attentional ha" in the  
distal forms?

Thank you very much in advance.

Mai Zaki

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