Table of contents
Introduction7
Part One: An overview of the language
Chapter 0: Definition of the language of study11
Chapter 1: The difficulty of Arabic17
Chapter 2: Thumbnail sketches of Arabic33
Part Two: Theoretical questions: Aesthetics and form
Chapter 3: The form-use connection53
Chapter 4: The grammar of duality and the duality of grammar97
Part Three: Form of the lexicon
Chapter 5: L'Arbitraire du signe153
Chapter 6: Accumulation175
Chapter 7: Enantiosemantics195
Chapter 8: Nouns of manner217
Part Four: Form in syntax
Chapter 9: The shape of syntax235
Chapter 10: Pleonasm277
Chapter 11: Specification289
Chapter 12: Causatives and ascriptives363
References411
Indices419
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