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Date: 29 Feb 2012
From:abdelkader fassi fehri <abdelkaderfassifehri at gmail.com>
Subject:Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar

 *new book information *

*JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY*

www.benjamins.com

*Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar*

*Abdelkader Fassi Fehri*

KAICAL, Ryad & Mohammed V University, Rabat

In light of recent generative minimalism, and comparative parametric theory
of language variation, the book investigates key features and parameters of
Arabic grammar. Part I addresses morpho-syntactic and semantic interfaces
in temporality, aspectuality, and actionality, including the
Past/Perfect/Perfective ambiguity akin to the very synthetic temporal
morphology, collocating time adverb construal, and interpretability of
verbal Number as pluractional. Part II is dedicated to nominal
architecture, the behaviour of bare nouns as true indefinites, the
count/mass dichotomy (re-examined in light of general, collective, and
singulative DP properties), the mirror image ordering of serialized
adjectives, and N-to-D Move in synthetic possession, proper names, and
individuated vocatives. Part III examines the role of CP in time and space
anchoring, double access reading (in a DAR language such as Arabic),
sequence of tense (SOT), silent pronominal categories in consistent null
subject languages (including referential and generic pro), and the
interpretability of inflection. Semantic and formal parameters are set out,
within a mixed macro/micro-parametric model of language variation. The book
is of particular interest to students, researchers, and teachers of Arabic,
Semitic, comparative, typological, or general linguistics.

*[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 182] 2012. xx, 358 pp.*

*Hb 978 90 272 5565 5 EUR 99.00*

*E-bOOK 978 90 272 7496 0 EUR 99.00**able of contents*

Foreword

Provenance of Chapters

*Part I. Temporality, aspect, voice, and event structure*

Chapter 1. Tense/Aspect interaction and variation

Chapter 2. Transitivity, causativity, and verbal plurality

Chapter 3. Synthetic/analytic asymmetries in voice and temporal patterns

Chapter 4. Arabic Perfect and temporal adverbs

*Part II. DP, np, bareness, and count/mass structures*

Chapter 5. The grammar of count and mass

Chapter 6. Synthesis in Arabic DPs

Chapter 7. Bare, generic, mass, and referential DPs

Chapter 8. Determination parameters in the Arabic and Semitic diglossia

*Part III. Clausal structure, silent pronouns, and Agree*

Chapter 9. Time/space anchors, logophors, finiteness, and
(un)interpretability of inflection

Chapter 10. Arabic silent pronouns, person, and voice

Chapter 11. Plural verbs and Agree

References

Index

“This outstanding study is a major contribution to Arabic and general
theoretical linguistics. Solidly grounded in scholarship ranging from the
rich Arabic linguistic tradition to inquiries at the forefront of current
research, the author provides incisive and compelling accounts of central
features of Semitic languages, placing them in a revealing comparative
framework, and also develops stimulating new ideas about semantics and
syntax of broad import and reach. A very significant and welcome
achievement.”

*Noam Chomsky*, *Institute Professor, MIT*

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