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Tense
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A controversy prevails in the study of Semitic languages, both ancient and modern, namely whether their verbal morphologies mark tense (e.g. past vs. non-past), or aspect (perfective vs. imperfective), or some combination of both. Also something of an issue are and modality, but they are not usually as problematic (or they are problematic in different ways) as tense and aspect. Arabic is consistent with other Semitic languages in its nonconcatenative morphology. Verbal and nominal forms alike are typically formed by interdigitation of consonantal roots (ideally c…
Date:
2020-09-01
Sociolinguistics of Palestinian Arabic
(7,053 words)
1. Introduction The aim of this lemma is partly to highlight various studies done over the years analyzing the high degree of linguistic variability in Palestinian Arabic. More than that, though, there is a sense that the linguistic situation, and indeed sociolinguistic complexity in Palestine more generally, are emblematic of the history of region and the speech community described in these studies. This is a community that has known, in the few decades since the commencement of scholarly socioli…
Date:
2018-04-01