Rethinking templates: A syntactic analysis of verbal morphology in Emirati Arabic

This paper presents an analysis of the morphosyntax and lexical semantics of the system of verbal forms of Emirati Arabic (EA, the variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates) in terms of syntactic decomposition of argument structure. We argue that verbal meaning is a function of at le...

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Main Authors: Meera Al Kaabi, Dimitrios Ntelitheos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2019-11-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/428