The Lexical Semantics Of The Arabic Verb

Author : Peter John Glanville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2024-06-30
Category : FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
ISBN : 0191834696

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The Lexical Semantics of the Arabic Verb by Peter John Glanville Pdf

This is an investigation of Arabic derivational morphology that focuses on the relationship between verb meaning and linguistic form. Beginning with the ground form, the text offers a comprehensive analysis of the most common verb patterns of Arabic from a lexical semantic perspective. Peter Glanville explains why verbs with seemingly unrelated meanings share the same phonological shape, and analyses sets of words that contain the same consonantal root to arrive at a common abstraction. He uses both contemporary and historical data to explore the semantics of reflexivity, symmetry, causation, and repetition, and argues that the verb patterns of Arabic that express these phenomena have come about as the result of grammaticalisation and analogical processes that are common cross-linguistically.

Author : Peter John Glanville
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198792734

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The Lexical Semantics of the Arabic Verb by Peter John Glanville Pdf

This book explores Arabic derivational morphology, focusing on the relationship between verb meaning and linguistic forms from a lexical semantic perspective. It explains why verbs with seemingly unrelated meanings share the same phonological shape, and analyses sets of words containing the same consonantal root to arrive at a common abstraction.

Author : Warwick Danks
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027286956

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The Arabic Verb by Warwick Danks Pdf

The Arabic verbal system is, for most grammarians, the keystone of the language. Notable for the regularity of its patterns, it presents the linguist with an unparalleled opportunity to explore the Saussurean notion of the indivisible sign: form and meaning. Whilst Arabic forms are well-documented, the elucidation of the corresponding meanings has proved more challenging. Beginning with an examination of the verbal morphology of Modern Standard Arabic, including an evaluation of the significance of the consonantal root, this volume then concentrates on establishing the function of the vowel-lengthening verbal patterns (III and VI). It explores issues of mutuality and reciprocity, valency and transitivity, ultimately focusing on atelic lexical aspect as the unified meaning of these patterns. This study is rich in data and relies extensively upon contemporary examples (with transliteration and translation) to illustrate its arguments, adopting an empirical structuralist approach which is aimed both at general linguists and at specialist Arabists.

Author : Hussain Hameed Mayuuf,Riyadh Tariq Al-Ameedi
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783346355997

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Semantic Extension in Verbs of Touch in English and Arabic by Hussain Hameed Mayuuf,Riyadh Tariq Al-Ameedi Pdf

Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: PhD, University of Baghdad, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the semantic extensions of verbs of touch in English and Arabic. Verbs of touch, as one type of verbs of sensation, are extended metaphorically in a variety of ways that is different from one language to another. Culture is assumed to strongly influence the semantic extensions of verbs of sensation in general and those of touch in particular. This study comes out with a conclusion that this type of verbs are extended semantically to cover a variety of meanings in both languages, English and Arabic.

Author : John C. Eisele
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Arabic language
ISBN : 3447040629

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Arabic Verbs in Time by John C. Eisele Pdf

Author : Peter John Glanville
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192511300

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The Lexical Semantics of the Arabic Verb by Peter John Glanville Pdf

This book is an investigation of Arabic derivational morphology that focuses on the relationship between verb meaning and linguistic form. Beginning with the ground form, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the most common verb patterns of Arabic from a lexical semantic perspective. Peter Glanville explains why verbs with seemingly unrelated meanings share the same phonological shape, and analyses sets of words that contain the same consonantal root to arrive at a common abstraction. He uses both contemporary and historical data to explore the semantics of reflexivity, symmetry, causation, and repetition, and argues that the verb patterns of Arabic that express these phenomena have come about as the result of grammaticalization and analogical processes that are common cross-linguistically. The book adopts an approach to morphology in which rule-based derivation has created word patterns and consonantal roots, with the result that in some derivations roots may be extracted from a source word and plugged in to a pattern. It illustrates the semantic relationship between a source word and its derivative, while also offering evidence to support the view of the consonantal root as a morphological object. The volume will be a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Arabic language and linguistics who are interested in understanding the verb patterns of Arabic, the derivational relationships between words, and the construction of meaning in the mind. It will also appeal to researchers and students in morphology, semantics, historical linguistics, and cognitive linguistics.

Author : Karim Achab
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443838269

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Internal Structure of Verb Meaning by Karim Achab Pdf

Internal Structure of Verb meaning: A Study of verbs in Tamazight (Berber) makes years of academic research in linguistics available to a wide audience. It is written in such a way that it serves as an introduction to the domains of lexical semantics and the organization of grammar for students. The book investigates the internal structure and the predicate-argument structure of verbs of (change of) state, including unaccusatives, verbs of spatial configuration, causatives, and those traditionally referred to as verbs of quality in the linguistic literature on Tamazight. The Tamazight data investigated is so peculiar that it reveals a lot about the construction and derivation of verb meaning from both the ontogenetic and the phylogenetic views. The analysis provided in this book also shows in a parsimonious and most lucid way how lexical semantics interacts with other syntactic approaches including Government and Binding and the Minimalist program. As most of the literature available on Tamazight is written in French, the author also made a pledge to inform the English-speaking world about the reality of Tamazight not only as a living language, but also as a culture and an identity that is still cherished and defended by its owners across North Africa, from Morocco to Egypt and in some Sub-Saharan countries including Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso in a variety known as Tuareg. Although the language is still spoken by some 40 million people in these two regions, political regimes in these various countries have had enough of a nerve to even deny its existence (see quotes, p. iv). You will be surprised to find out that Sheshonq, the founder of the 22nd dynasty of Pharaohs in Egypt, was an Amazigh (Berber) from Libya; and you will learn about how this millennia-old language has resisted some of the most oppressive tyrants and regimes of our era.

Author : Martine Cuvalay-Haak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110820874

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The Verb in Literary and Colloquial Arabic by Martine Cuvalay-Haak Pdf

Author : David Justice
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230164

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The Semantics of Form in Arabic in the Mirror of European Languages by David Justice Pdf

Justice's first aim in this volume is to demystify the Arabic language, which is widely perceived as difficult to learn, and has been characterised as ambiguous and confusingly polysemous. The central concern of this three-dimensional portrait of Classical Arabic is a version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that language is a determinant of other aspects of culture. But rather than focusing on the possible influences of language on thought, Justice is intersted in connections between language and language use or langue and parole. Among the topics treated are: the difficulty of Arabic; morphosyntax and Whorfian semantics; the role of duality in Arabic; iconicity; a population profile of vocabulary; the syntactic cut' of Arabic; and the relation between causatives and verbs that ascribe qualities to an object. This erudite and thought-provoking volume will be of interest not only to Arabists but to linguistic anthropologists in general.

Author : Maher Bahloul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781135981624

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Structure and Function of the Arabic Verb by Maher Bahloul Pdf

Structure and Function of the Arabic Verb is a corpus-based study that unveils the morpho-syntax and the semantics of the Arabic verb. Approaches to verbal grammatical categories - the constituents of verbal systems - often rely on either semantic-pragmatic or syntactic analyses. This research bridges the gap between these two distinct approaches through a detailed analysis of Taxis, Aspect, Tense and Modality in Standard Arabic. This is accomplished by showing, firstly, some basic theoretical concerns shared by both schools of thought, and, secondly, the extent to which semantic structures and invariant meanings mirror syntactic representations. Maher Bahloul’s findings also indicate that the basic constituents of the verbal system in Arabic, namely the Perfect and the Imperfect, are systematically differentiated through their invariant semantic features in a markedness relation. Finally, this study suggests that the syntactic derivation of verbal and nominal clauses are sensitive to whether or not verbal categories are specified for their feature values, providing therefore a principled explanation to a long-standing debate. This reader friendly book will appeal to both specialists and students of Arabic linguistics, language and syntax.

Author : Karin C. Ryding
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 052177151X

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A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic by Karin C. Ryding Pdf

A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic is a comprehensive handbook on the structure of Arabic. Keeping technical terminology to a minimum, it provides a detailed yet accessible overview of Arabic in which the essentials of its phonology, morphology and syntax can be readily looked up and understood. Accompanied by extensive examples, it will prove an invaluable practical guide for supporting students' textbooks, classroom work or self-study, and will also be a useful resource for scholars and professionals wishing to develop an understanding of the key features of the language.

Author : Giuliano Lancioni,Lidia Bettini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004206427

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The Word in Arabic by Giuliano Lancioni,Lidia Bettini Pdf

This book is the first volume devoted to the issues raised by the definition of ‘word’ in Arabic. Papers include studies on the history of Arabic grammatical and rhetorical traditions, current theoretical and applied linguistics, and language contact.

Author : Robert D. Hoberman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSD:31822005292677

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The Syntax and Semantics of Verb Morphology in Modern Aramaic by Robert D. Hoberman Pdf

Author : Reem Bassiouney,E. Graham Katz
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781589018853

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Arabic Language and Linguistics by Reem Bassiouney,E. Graham Katz Pdf

Arabic, one of the official languages of the United Nations, is spoken by more than half a billion people around the world and is of increasing importance in today's political and economic spheres. The study of the Arabic language has a long and rich history: earliest grammatical accounts date from the 8th century and include full syntactic, morphological, and phonological analyses of the vernaculars and of Classical Arabic. In recent years the academic study of Arabic has become increasingly sophisticated and broad. This state-of-the-art volume presents the most recent research in Arabic linguistics from a theoretical point of view, including computational linguistics, syntax, semantics, and historical linguistics. It also covers sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and discourse analysis by looking at issues such as gender, urbanization, and language ideology. Underlying themes include the changing and evolving attitudes of speakers of Arabic and theoretical approaches to linguistic variation in the Middle East.

Author : Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung,Dimitrios Ntelitheos,Meera Al Kaabi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000300550

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Emirati Arabic by Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung,Dimitrios Ntelitheos,Meera Al Kaabi Pdf

Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar offers readers a reference tool for discovering and studying in detail the specific dialect of Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates. It covers all major areas of Emirati Arabic grammar, describing in detail its phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic systems. Each grammatical point is illustrated with numerous examples drawn from native Emirati Arabic speakers and is thoroughly discussed providing both accessible and linguistically informed grammatical description. This book is a useful reference for students of Gulf Arabic and/or Modern Standard Arabic or other Arabic dialects with an interest in the dialect spoken in the UAE, researchers interested in Arabic language and linguistics as well as graduate students and scholars interested in Arabic studies.