Adam Pospíšil
List of John Benjamins publications for which Adam Pospíšil plays a role.
Articles
2025 Chapter 4. Neutralization of voice in colloquial Arabic verbs Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXV: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Washington, D.C., 2022, Alqassas, Ahmad (ed.), pp. 80–107 | Chapter
In this paper I propose the concept of neutralization of voice, motivated by certain cases of intransitive usage of transitive verbs in some Arabic varieties and defined as the omission of coding of a de-transitivizing valency alternation. I confront the concept with a sample of Arabic verbs and… read more
2025 Chapter 6. Doubling unconditionals in Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXV: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Washington, D.C., 2022, Alqassas, Ahmad (ed.), pp. 137–157 | Chapter
We discuss wh-based unconditionals in Arabic (‘wherever she went, she was followed by photographers’), with special attention paid to the so-called doubling unconditionals in whose antecedents the predicate/clause is reduplicated (lit. ‘wher(ever) she went she went, she was followed by… read more