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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808720703321

Autore

Anwar Mohamed Sami

Titolo

"Be" and equational sentences in Egyptian colloquial Arabic / / Mohamed Sami Anwar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins, , 1979

ISBN

90-272-8321-4

9786613222572

1-283-22257-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (134 pages)

Collana

Studies in language companion series : SLCS, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 2

Disciplina

492/.77

Soggetti

Arabic language - Dialects - Egypt

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

BE AND EQUATIONAL SENTENCES IN EGYPTIAN COLLOQUIAL ARABIC; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; CHAPTER I. Introduction; CHAPTER II. THE FUNCTION OF EQUATIONAL SENTENCES IN ECA; CHAPTER III. VERB ""BE"" IN ECA; CHAPTER IV. THE SUBJECT OF THE EQUATIONAL SENTENCE; CHAPTER V. THE PREDICATE AND THE REMOTE STRUCTURE OF EQUATIONAL SENTENCES; CHAPTER VI. CONCLUSION; APPENDIX I.; APPENDIX II.; APPENDIX III.; APPENDIX IV VERB + PARTICLE IN ECA; APPENDIX V The Expletive fih 'there'; REFERENCES ON ECA; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

The volume attempts to deal with equational sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and their remote structure. In this unique monograph Mohamed Sami Anwar oes to show that equational sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic are derived from underlying sentences that have transitive or intransitive verbs and that the verb be in its overt form is only a tense marker. The chapter following the introduction deals with the equational sentences functioning as conveyers of stative ideas. The third chapter deals with the verb be in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and how it functions only as a tense marker.