There are many analyses that attempt to account for Polarity Items (PI)
any. Among such analyses are Ladusaw’s (1980), Kadmon and Landman’s
(1993), and Linebarger’s (1987). In this…
Kufis and Basris analyse null and optional ’an, in Arabic Complementizer Structure (ACS), in terms of how an accusative case is assigned to the verb. The linguists of both schools, despite their…
2017
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Institute for the Study and Research on Arabization
I discuss the morphological analysis of tense and aspect proposed by early Arab grammarians and illustrate some of its problems. In order to account for these problems, the Arab grammarians had to…