Modality, Mood and Aspect in Spoken Arabic 1136882138, 9781136882135

First published in 1995. Part of the library of Arabic Linguistics series which devotes itself to all issues of Arabic l

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Modality, Mood and Aspect in Spoken Arabic
1136882138, 9781136882135

Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing bod

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In a long dead language isolate such as Hurrian, grammatical studies are replete with difficulties. The paucity of mater

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This collective volume contains a selection of research contributions, presented at the 30th Deutscher Romanistentag[Ger

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Audio material to accompany the book is available at the following website: www.euppublishing.com/page/ArabicToday/audio

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Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective, perhaps even solipsistic

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It is a fact that tense, aspect and modality together form one of the most recurring and active areas of research in con

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This book is a cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary exploration of modality within systemic functional linguistics (SF

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Research into the “grammar of language death” is often biased toward formal processes (e.g. paradigmatic levelling). In

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Signed languages are the naturally-evolved visual-gestural languages of deaf communities. The realization that they are

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