33.1751, Books: Arabic Dislocation: Alzayid

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Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 14:09:34
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Arabic Dislocation: Alzayid

 


Title: Arabic Dislocation 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 271  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.271 


Author: Ali A. Alzayid

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258182 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258182 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258182 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210661 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210661 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210661 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

Since the early years of generative grammar (Chomsky 1977, inter alia), the
phenomenology of dislocation has proved to be a fertile area of research.
This, however, has not been the case for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and
hence this thorough monograph intends to fill this lacuna. Three aspects of
this linguistic phenomenon stand out: the taxonomy of possible dislocated
configurations, syntax and interpretation. Though the structure in itself has
been extensively studied in various languages, including varieties of spoken
Arabic, this monograph shows that MSA presents properties that set it apart
from known varieties and cannot be captured by an extension or modification of
existing analyses. Moreover, existing analyses are not fully satisfactory as
there are open analytical questions regarding the interpretation and syntactic
analysis of dislocation structures crosslinguistically. Particularly, the
optimal path to follow concerning dislocation structures in MSA is to argue
for the claim that contrast, as an information-structural notion, underlies
the interpretation of dislocated elements, and these elements are best
syntactically analyzed as being involved in a bisentential configuration,
contra monoclausal approaches to dislocation. This monograph should be
relevant to anyone with an interest in the Arabic language, and also to
syntacticians and typologists with an interest in sentence structure.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Typology

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


Written In: English  (eng)

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