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Grammaticalization of Arabic Prepositions and Subordinators: A Corpus-Based Study

Grammaticalization of Arabic Prepositions and Subordinators: A Corpus-Based Study

Esseesy, Mohssen

Hardcover

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 9004185879
ISBN13: 9789004185876
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 18 2010
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
Previous scholarship on Arabic prepositions typically has presented these as a static closed class of words. Inevitably, such a treatment does not take into account the diachronic development of prepositions into new functions in syntax, semantics and discourse. The present study applies grammaticalization theory to the analysis of prepositions and subordinators across varieties of Arabic. It goes beyond the traditional single-word focus and treats prepositions as parts of multiword complexes. Drawing upon a sizeable base of authentic historical and present-day Arabic data, it presents a rigorously descriptive and quantitative analysis of evolutionary processes involving prepositional forms and subordinators.

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