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Date: 24-Mar-2011
From: Els van Egmond [egmonde at brill.nl]
Subject: Grammaticalization of Arabic Prepositions and Subordinators:
Esseesy

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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:51:15
From: Els van Egmond [egmonde at brill.nl]
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Title: Grammaticalization of Arabic Prepositions and Subordinators 
Subtitle: A Corpus-Based Study 
Series Title: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistic  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.nl

Book URL: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=28819 

Author: Mohssen Esseesy

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004185876 Pages: 418 Price: U.S. $ 239

Abstract:

Previous scholarship on Arabic prepositions typically has presented these
as a static closed class of words. Inevitably, such a treatment does not
take into account the diachronic development of prepositions into new
functions in syntax, semantics and discourse. The present study applies
grammaticalization theory to the analysis of prepositions and subordinators
across varieties of Arabic. It goes beyond the traditional single-word
focus and treats prepositions as parts of multiword complexes. Drawing upon
a sizeable base of authentic historical and present-day Arabic data, it
presents a rigorously descriptive and quantitative analysis of evolutionary
processes involving prepositional forms and subordinators. 

Contents

Chapter One Background on Language Change in Arabic
Chapter Two Grammaticalization
Chapter Three Complex Prepositional Phrases
Chapter Four Compound-Like Prepositions 
Chapter Five Simple Stem Prepositionals
Chapter Six Simple Stem "Primary" Prepositions
Chapter Seven Bound-Stem Prepositional Forms
Chapter Eight From Preposition to Clause Subordination 
Chapter Nine Causal, Concessive-Conditional, and Concessive Subordinators
Chapter Ten Summary and Conclusion 
Appendix 
Bibliography 
Indices
Author Index 
Subject Index 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Written In: English  (eng)

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