TY - BOOK AU - Marmorstein,Michal TI - Tense and Text in Classical Arabic SN - 9789004310483 PY - 2018/// PB - Brill KW - Anthropology KW - Arabic KW - Classical Arabic KW - Dependent clause KW - Grammatical aspect KW - Lexeme KW - Participle KW - Prophetic biography KW - Semantics KW - Syntax KW - Verb N1 - Open Access N2 - This study undertakes to examine the problem of the tenses in Classical Arabic. While aware of the long tradition which shaped the discussion of this subject, and building, in fact, on some important insights offered by medieval and modern grammarians, this study attempts to redefine the discussion and propose a new analysis of the tenses, based on a functional text-oriented investigation of a large corpus of Classical Arabic prose UR - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30067 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/196d01f7-514a-439c-997f-d51bd8417de4/650033.pdf ER -