Relativizer 'illi' in Arabic Dialects

According to the grammars of Arabic dialects illi only occurs following a definite head noun. However, based on fresh data from Brustad (2000), the relative marker illi is also found to occur following an indefinite head noun in Egyptian, Moroccan, Syrian, and Kuwaiti Arabic. Brustad (2000) accounts...

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Main Author: Galal, Mohamed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 2004-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/1243