25.4862, Books: Negation in Arabic: Diem

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Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:43:42
From: Krista Zimmer [krista at isdistribution.com]
Subject: Negation in Arabic: Diem

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Title: Negation in Arabic 
Subtitle: A Study in Linguistic History 
Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books
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Book URL: http://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=44368 

Author: Werner Diem

Paperback: ISBN:  9783447101172 Pages: 119 Price: U.S. $ 87

Abstract:

The present monograph is devoted to what is probably the most interesting
development in the history of negation in Arabic. This development, which
began in Classical Arabic and continued in the post-classical period of the
language, consists of the combination of the inherited preverbal particles of
negation and a newly developed postverbal element. In Negation in Arabic, it
is shown how this postverbal negative element developed from the adverbial
expression say'an, "a bit" - which in Classical Arabic was originally confined
to certain verbs marked +[quantifiable] -, and how this emphasising negation
was gradually generalised for any verbs and, subsequently, other word classes
until it finally became the normal, unmarked negation. Further developments
consisting in the weakening or the deletion of the first element, which is the
old inherited negation, are also treated. Certain details of this development
resemble the development of the circumfixal negations of the type ne ? pas in
French, and therefore the history of negation in French is referred to where
this is helpful in order to understand the specific Arabic development.
Theoretical approaches concerning the development and function of negative
polarity items (NPI) are also taken into consideration. (Harrassowitz Verlag
2014)

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax

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

Written In: English  (eng)

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