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Table of contents :
THE ARABIC ELATIVE: A NEW APPROACH
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. The affective use of the superlative
II. The extended use of the pattern afʿalu
III. The origin of the pattern afʿalu
IV. The affective superlative in the function of "equative"
V. The comparative in the function of “equative"

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THE ARABIC ELATIVE

STUDIES IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS EDITED BY

G. F. PIJPER Emeritus Professor in Arabic Language and Literature in the University of Amsterdam

II M. M. BRAVMANN

THE ARABIC ELATIVE A NEW APPROACH

LEIDEN E.J. BRILL 1968

THE ARABIC ELATIVE A NEW APPROACH

M. M. BRAVMANN

LEIDEN E. J. BRILL 1968

Copyright 1968 by E. J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or translated in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm or any other means without written permission from the publisher PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS

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I. The affective use of the superlative......................................

1

II. The extended use of the pattern af'alu..............................

22

III. The origin of the pattern af'alu............................................

31

IV. The affective superlative in the function of c