Arabic-L:NEW BOOK:Copulae in the Arabic Noun Phrase

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Date: 27 Aug 2013
From: "GRANDE Francesco" <francesco.grande at unive.it>
Subject: NEW BOOK:Copulae in the Arabic Noun Phrase

My book, "Copulae in the Arabic Noun Phrase. A Unified Analysis of Arabic
Adnominal Markers" is now available from Brill.

Please find below the book abstract:

Morphemes combined with the Arabic noun are clearly described in the
literature, but their interpretation can be somewhat nebulous, and a unified
scholarly analysis does not as yet exist. This book proposes a new and
unified perspective regarding these morphemes, analyzing them as copulae,
and the constructions in which they occur as instances of predication.

Analyzing morphemes combined with the Arabic noun as copulae explains many
of their puzzling properties (rise and loss of declension, proteiform nature
of nunation, etc.). Emphasis is placed on data previously marginalized in
the description of these morphemes, from pre-Classical Arabic transmitted by
Arab Grammarians, Semitic languages that contributed to the emergence of
Arabic through language contact, and roughly 30 languages genetically
unrelated to Arabic.


All the best,

Francesco Grande,

Researcher in Arabic Language and Literature

Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea

Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia

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