nam a22 c 4500 la.182/74008654 nljbp 250625051456.3 cr ||||||||||| 241222s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2011048226 9789027274960 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp PJ6106 492.7/5 23 CFK bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Fassi Fehri, Abdelkader author Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar Abdelkader Fassi Fehri Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (xx, 358 pp. ) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 0166-0829 182 Includes bibliographical references and index. Provenance of Chapters -- Chapter 1. Tense/Aspect interaction and variation -- Chapter 2. Transitivity, causativity, and verbal plurality -- Chapter 3. Synthetic/analytic asymmetries in voice and temporal patterns -- Chapter 4. Arabic Perfect and temporal adverbs -- Chapter 5. The grammar of count and mass -- Chapter 6. Synthesis in Arabic DPs -- Chapter 7. Bare, generic, mass, and referential DPs -- Chapter 8. Determination parameters in the Arabic and Semitic diglossia -- Chapter 9. Time/space anchors, logophors, finiteness, and (un)interpretability of inflection -- Chapter 10. Arabic silent pronouns, person, and voice -- Chapter 11. Plural verbs and Agree In light of recent generative minimalism, and comparative parametric theory of language variation, the book investigates key features and parameters of Arabic grammar. Part I addresses morpho-syntactic and semantic interfaces in temporality, aspectuality, and actionality, including the Past/Perfect/Perfective ambiguity akin to the very synthetic temporal morphology, collocating time adverb construal, and interpretability of verbal Number as pluractional. Part II is dedicated to nominal architecture, the behaviour of bare nouns as true indefinites, the count/mass dichotomy (re-examined in light of general, collective, and singulative DP properties), the mirror image ordering of serialized adjectives, and N-to-D Move in synthetic possession, proper names, and individuated vocatives. Part III examines the role of CP in time and space anchoring, double access reading (in a DAR language such as Arabic), sequence of tense (SOT), silent pronominal categories in consistent null subject languages (including referential and generic pro), and the interpretability of inflection. Semantic and formal parameters are set out, within a mixed macro/micro-parametric model of language variation. The book is of particular interest to students, researchers, and teachers of Arabic, Semitic, comparative, typological, or general linguistics. Provided by publisher. Afro-Asiatic languages Generative linguistics Syntax Theoretical linguistics Fassi Fehri, Abdelkader author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 9789027255655 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/la.182 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027274960