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Subject(s)

• Semitic languages—Grammar [Browse]
• Semitic languages—Dialectology [Browse]

Summary note

In this bilingual volume, Hans Lagerqvist presents to the reader four linguistic essays previously discussed at the Semitic seminar at Uppsala University. (1) The essay Definite and Indefinite Relative Clauses in Literary Modern Standard Arabic: An Outline of a Structural Analysis is a study of the so called definite relative clauses, which leads the author to consider their pronouns as split morphemes. (2) Contribution a l'etude de l'inaccompli en b(i)- is an essay that tries to explain the origin of the verbal prefix b(i)- and in which four Mashreq dialects are analysed: those of Egypt, the Saoudi Arabian Najd, Syria and the Persian Gulf countries. (3) La Proposition nominale: une structure en quete de clarte, takes up to discussion a phenomenon that has been much debated amongst linguists, Semitists and Slavists, viz. the nominal or verbless sentence. The nominal sentence is primarily analysed as it appears in Biblical Hebrew and Quranic Arabic (4) A Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Study of the Triglossia in the Novel Ya Maryam by Sinan ˀAn&;un is a story that takes place in Baghdad and presents a number of characters who express themselves in Christian Baghdadi or Muslim Baghdadi.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Language note

Two essays in English and two in French.

Other title(s)

Quatre essais sur la grammaire et la dialectologie sémitiques

ISBN

• 9783447113991 ((paperback))
• 3447113995

OCLC

1154663564

International Article Number

• 9783447113991

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