Camilleri, Maris and ElSadek, Shaimaa and Sadler, Louisa (2014) A cross dialectal view of the Arabic dative alternation. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 61 (1). pp. 3-44. ISSN 1216-8076
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Abstract
This paper is concerned with the syntax of ditransitive verbs in Arabic.We concentrate on the vernaculars, focussing in particular on three geographically spread dialects: Egyptian Cairene Arabic, the dominant vernacular in Egypt, Hijazi Arabic, spoken in Western Saudi Arabia and Maltese, a mixed language with a Magrebi/Siculo-Arabic stratum. We show that all three exhibit an alternation (the dative alternation) between a ditransitive (‘double object’) construction and a corresponding prepositional dative construction, and outline a number of differences between these constructions in the different varieties of Arabic. We consider the distribution of verbs exhibiting the dative alternation in the light of Ryding’s (2011) observations concerning Modern Standard Arabic.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet |
| Depositing User: | László Sallai-Tóth |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Apr 2017 14:23 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Mar 2019 00:15 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/50981 |
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