30.4385, Books: A Multi-locus Analysis of Arabic Negation: Alqassas

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Subject: 30.4385, Books: A Multi-locus Analysis of Arabic Negation: Alqassas

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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:54:04
From: Anna Glazier [Anna.Glazier at eup.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: A Multi-locus Analysis of Arabic Negation: Alqassas

 


Title: A Multi-locus Analysis of Arabic Negation 
Subtitle: Micro-variation in Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic 
Series Title: Edinburgh Studies in Theoretical Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
	   www.edinburghuniversitypress.com
	

Book URL: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-a-multi-locus-analysis-of-arabic-negation.html 


Author: Ahmad Alqassas

Hardback: ISBN:  9781474433143 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 75


Abstract:

This book studies the micro-variation in the syntax of negation of Southern
Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic. By including new and recently published
data that support key issues for the syntax of negation, the book challenges
the standard parametric view that negation has a fixed parametrized position
in syntactic structure. It particularly argues for a multi-locus analysis with
syntactic, semantic, morphosyntactic and diachronic implications for the
various structural positions. Thus accounting for numerous word order
restrictions, semantic ambiguities and pragmatic interpretations without
complicating narrow syntax with special operations, configurations or
constraints.

Key Features

* Data from Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic shed light on word
order contrasts in negative clauses and their interaction with tense/aspect,
mood/modality, semantic scope over adverbs, and negative sensitive items

* New data challenging the standard claim in Arabic linguistics literature
that negation has a fixed parametrized position in the clause structure

* Non-parametric analysis challenging the parametric view of cross-linguistic
negation studies and supporting a multi-locus analysis

Available in North America from our distributor, Oxford University Press
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

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


Written In: English  (eng)

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