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1、STRUCTUREANDFUNCTIONOFTHEARABICVERBStructureandFunctionoftheArabicVerbisacorpus-basedstudythatunveilsthemorpho-syntaxandthesemanticsoftheArabicverb.Approachestoverbalgrammaticalcategories–theconstituentsofverbalsystems–oftenrelyoneithersemantic–pragmaticorsyntacti
2、canalyses.ThisresearchbridgesthegapbetweenthesetwodistinctapproachesthroughadetailedanalysisofTaxis,Aspect,Tense,andModalityinStandardArabic.Thisisaccomplishedbyshowing,first,somebasictheoreticalconcernssharedbybothschoolsofthoughtand,second,theextenttowhichsemant
3、icstructuresandinvariantmeaningsmirrorsyntacticrepresentations.MaherBahloul’sfindingsalsoindicatethatthebasicconstituentsoftheverbalsysteminArabic,namelythePerfectandtheImperfect,aresystematicallydifferentiatedthroughtheirinvariantsemanticfeaturesinamarkednessrela
4、tion.Finally,thisstudysuggeststhatthesyntacticderivationofverbalandnominalclausesaresensitivetowhetherornotverbalcategoriesarespecifiedfortheirfeaturevalues,providingthereforeaprincipledexplanationtoalong-standingdebate.Thisreader-friendlybookwillappealtobothspeci
5、alistsandstudentsofArabiclinguistics,language,andsyntax.MaherBahloulisAssistantProfessorofEnglishandLinguisticsattheAmericanUniversityofSharjah.ROUTLEDGEARABICLINGUISTICSSERIESGeneralEditor:CliveHoles,UniversityofOxfordEditors:El-Sa’idBadawi,AmericanUniversityinCa
6、iroAdrianGully,UniversityofExeterYasirSuleiman,UniversityofEdinburghKeithWalters,UniversityofTexasTheRoutledgeArabicLinguisticsSeriespublisheshigh-quality,academicallyrigorousresearchonArabiclinguisticstotwomainreaderships:non-Arabistgenerallinguistswithaninterest
7、inArabic,andstudentsandresearchersalreadyinthefieldofArabiclanguageandlinguistics.BothsynchronicanddiachronicstudiesofArabicarewelcomewhichaidourunderstandingofthehistoricalevolutionandthepresentstateofArabic,whetherdialectalorstandard.Workswrittenfromasociolingui
8、stic(e.g.languagevariation),socio-historical(e.g.languagehistory),sociological(e.g.languageplanning),orpsycholinguistic(e.g.languageacquisition)perspect