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. DOI https://doi.org/10.1556/aling.61.2014.1.1
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. DOI https://doi.org/10.1556/aling.61.2014.1.1
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. DOI https://doi.org/10.1556/aling.61.2014.1.1
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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Uncontrolled Keywords: | ditransitive predicates; dative alternation; Lexical Functional Grammar; Lexical Mapping Theory; Arabic vernaculars |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 11 Nov 2014 15:00 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 19:36 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/11451 |
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