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Event Building, Selection, and Non-Canonical Case in Tunisian Arabic: Fii-Insertion

Event Building, Selection, and Non-Canonical Case in Tunisian Arabic: Fii-Insertion

Pallottino, Margherita

Hardcover

Series: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory, Book 28

Grammar & Style

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 17, 2026

ISBN10: 900469093X
ISBN13: 9789004690936
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 17 2026
Language: English
The open access publication of this book was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

When Tunisians travel east, Levantine speakers are often struck by expressions like eating in their food or whistling in a little tune. What accounts for this distinctive usage? This book explains why Tunisian Arabic requires the preposition fii ('in') before a direct object in specific contexts. Examining three key constructions, it shows how fii-marking arises from the interaction between case licensing and event structure. It further argues that fii serves as a structural repair strategy when accusative case cannot be licensed canonically, offering a clear and insightful syntactic account of a remarkable feature of Tunisian Arabic grammar.

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