Arabic-L:LING:Relative Clause-Prepositional Phrase responses

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 25 April 2011
From: <mcredi at cloud9.net>
Subject: Relative Clause-Prepositional Phrase responses

[the Arabic script was wrecked on his previous post, so he has reposted with transliteration--dil]

For the benefit of the reader, let me transliterate the Arabic text

Nowhere in the Arab grammarians study of Arabic grammar is there a  
recognition of the relative clause. The notion of relative clause as  
it is understood in other languages is unknown to the Arab  
grammarians. The technical term itself of "relative clause" does not  
exist in Arabic. The way the Arab grammarians explain this phenomenon  
is as follows: "al-jumal bacda al-nakiraat sifaat wa-bacda al-macaarif  
ahwaal". This means that a relative clause whose antecedent is  
indefinite and consequently does not have a relative pronoun is  
considered "a sifa" and the grammarians call it "jumlat al-sifa"; a  
relative clause whose antecedent is definite and consequently has a  
relative pronoun is "haal" and the grammarians call it "silat  
al-mawsuul".

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