Amel Khalfaoui

List of John Benjamins publications for which Amel Khalfaoui plays a role.

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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Theoretical linguistics
Previous analyses of generic expressions in Arabic have focused on definite singular and plural DPs headed with the definite article al- (Fehri, 2004; Al-Malki et al., 2014). This study introduces an additional type of generic reference expressed with the Tunisian Arabic (TA) demonstrative hāk.… read more
Khalfaoui, Amel and Matthew A. Tucker 2019 IntroductionPerspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXX: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics, Stony Brook, New York, 2016 and Norman, Oklahoma, 2017, Khalfaoui, Amel and Matthew A. Tucker (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Chapter
Khalfaoui, Amel and Youssef A. Haddad 2019 IntroductionPerspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017, Khalfaoui, Amel and Youssef A. Haddad (eds.), pp. ix–xiv | Chapter
This paper reports on a study of the Tunisian Arabic demonstrative hāk, which encodes the cognitive status FAMILIAR, in the sense of the Givenness Hierarchy of Gundel et al. (1993). Although this demonstrative is usually used for at most FAMILIAR, it is frequently used in folk tales for the… read more