Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) by Subject "Arabic dialects"

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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 ...

    • 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 ...