| A Multi-Locus Analysis of Arabic Negation: Micro-Variation in Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic Contributor(s): Alqassas, Ahmad (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474433146 ISBN-13: 9781474433143 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Syntax - Foreign Language Study | Arabic |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.4" (1.00 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book studies the micro-variation in the syntax of negation of Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic. By including new and recently published data that support key issues for the syntax of negation, the book challenges the standard parametric view that negation has a fixed parametrized position in syntactic structure. It particularly argues for a multi-locus analysis with syntactic, semantic, morphosyntactic and diachronic implications for the various structural positions. Thus accounting for numerous word order restrictions, semantic ambiguities and pragmatic interpretations without complicating narrow syntax with special operations, configurations or constraints. |