Browsing Department of Arabic and Translation Studies by Author "359d688b-d70a-44f7-a8d9-9ac2a312487d"

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    • Croft’s cycle in Arabic: The negative existential cycle in a single language 

      Wilmsen, David (De Gruyter, 2020-05)
      The negative existential cycle has been shown to be operative in several language families. Here it is shown that it also operates within a single language. It happens that the existential fī that has been adduced as an ...

    • The Dehortative in the Spoken Arabics of the Eastern Mediterranean 

      Wilmsen, David (University of Bucharest, 2016)
      A few authors mention a hortative mood in Arabic, formed in a variety of manners, usually involving a pre-verbal element and an unmarked imperfective verb, sometimes thought of as the jussive or subjunctive. Not an imperative, ...

    • Grammaticalization and Degrammaticalization in an Arabic Existential Particle šay 

      Wilmsen, David (Polska Akademia Nauk (PAN), 2017-12)
      Against the usual assumption that Arabic grammatical operators based on reflexes of šay derive from the Arabic word for 'thing' šayʔ, it is argued here that indefinite quantifiers and partitives instead derive from an ...

    • Infixed -nn- in Northern Emirati Arabic 

      Wilmsen, David; Al Muhairi, Fatimah (Akaki Tserteli State University, 2020)
      An infixed -nn- between active participles having verbal force and their suffixed pronominal objects has been noted for the Arabic dialects of the southern Arabian Peninsula, including those of eastern Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, ...

    • On Morpho-Syntactic Levantisms in Maltese 

      Wilmsen, David; Al-Sayyed, Amany (Institut de recherches et d’études sur les mondes arabes et musulmans (IREMAM), 2019)
      Maltese is usually classified as a North African Arabic variety. Yet some researchers have remarked “some curious similarities with the Eastern dialects”. Investigations of these tend to concentrate upon the phonology and ...

    • Verbal negation in the Lebanese dialect of Zeitoun, Keserwan 

      Khairallah, Natalie; Wilmsen, David (Institut de recherches et d’études sur les mondes arabes et musulmans (IREMAM), 2019)
      The dialect of Zeitoun village in the northern Keserwan district of Lebanon exhibits both the split-morpheme negators mā…š of the southern and highland Levant and the pre-verbal negator mā without the post-positive -š of ...