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://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/4d91e332-6d9d-4c8b-9c9d-25b0d600d9d5