Towards a typology of attributive adjectives in Arabic dialects

Autor(en)

Stephan Prochazka

Abstrakt

Arabic is a typical noun-Attribute language with head-driven agreement in gender and number. As for definite attributive NPs, the default in most spoken Arabic varieties is definite marking of both the noun and the adjective-a feature that is rarely found cross-linguistically. This article shows that there are also cases of reversed word order, lacking agreement in gender, and dialects with definite marking on the nominal head. In dialects at the northern fringe of the Fertile Crescent, definiteness is by default only marked on the adjective. In these dialects, adjectival attributes are structurally identical to nominal attributes, including the use of the construct state with feminine heads.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Orientalistik

Journal

Language Typology and Universals

Band

75

Seiten

525-553

Anzahl der Seiten

29

ISSN

1867-8319

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2022-1062

Publikationsdatum

12-2022

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

602009 Arabistik, 602004 Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/towards-a-typology-of-attributive-adjectives-in-arabic-dialects(4d91e332-6d9d-4c8b-9c9d-25b0d600d9d5).html