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    • 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 ...
    • A Procedural Analysis of kadhalik in Modern Standard Arabic: Demonstrative or Discourse Marker? 

      Zaki, Mai (Emerald, 2011)
      The objective of this chapter is to apply a procedural analysis to the demonstrative form kadhalik in Modern Standard Arabic. It is argued that the form kadhalik can function either as a demonstrative or as a discourse ...
    • Tradition and its significance within Islam and the Abrahamic faiths 

      Ghani, Usman (USIM Press (Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia), 2022-05-22)
      The present article looks into the position and significance of tradition within Islam and the Abrahamic Faiths. Tradition in its very theological sense is generally believed to have divine authority albeit not as part of ...
    • Translation and the Quest for Meaning: Adūnīs and Yūsuf al-Khāl's Translation of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land 

      Nsiri, Imed (Arabic Translators International, 2018-04)
      This article examines some Arabic translations of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land with special reference to Adunis (͑Ali Ahmad Sa'id) and Yusuf al-Khal's al-Ard al-kharab (1958). Translation requires a close reading of an ...
    • 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 ...