Studies in the linguistic structure of classical Arabic / by Naphtali Kinberg ; edited by Leah Kinberg and Kees Versteegh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Some text in Arabic.

An investigation of the combination 'n law in Classical Arabic -- Notes on the shift from accusative constructions to prepositional phrases in Hebrew and Arabic -- A study of la-ʼin phrases in Early Literary Arabic -- Adverbial clauses as topics in Arabic: adverbial clauses in frontal position separated from their main clauses -- Causal and adversative meanings of the particle lākin in Arabic -- Some temporal, aspectual, and modal features of the Arabic structure la-qad + prefix tense verb -- Some modal, aspectual and syntactic constraints on the use of qad in the verbal system of Classical Arabic -- Figurative uses, polysemy and homonymy in systems of tense, mood and aspect -- Semi-imperfectives and imperfectives: a case-study of aspect and tense in Arabic participial clauses -- The concepts of elevation and depression in Medieval Arabic phonetic theory -- Treatise on the pronunciation of the ḍād / introduction by Kees Versteegh -- Risālah fī kayfīyat al-nuṭq bi-l-ḍād / taʼalīf ʻAlī bn Sulaymān al-Manṣūrī.

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The articles in this volume combine modern linguistic insights with the theories of Arab grammarians. The result is a series of studies on such aspects of the structure of Arabic as conditional sentences, adverbial clauses, and the particles "laqin" and "qad."

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