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 Grammaticalization of Arabic Prepositions and Subordinators: A Corpus-Based Study

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xxiv)   (595K)
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    • Contents
    • Figures
    • Table
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgements
    • Symbols And Abbreviations
    • Transcriptions
  • Background On Language Change In Arabic (1-30)   (580K)
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    • 1.1 Grammatical Categories Within Arabic Varieties
    • 1.2 Prevailing Attitudes And New Assumptions
    • 1.3 The Case For Grammaticalization
    • 1.4 Grammaticalization And Prepositions
    • 1.5 Early Scholarly Treatments Of Arabic Prepositions
    • 1.6 Recent Studies Of Arabic Prepositions
    • 1.7 Overview
  • Grammaticalization (31-74)   (594K)
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    • 2.1 Scope, Aim, Data Sources, And Limitations Of The Present Study
    • 2.2 Theoretical Background
    • 2.3 Motivating Strategies For Semantic Extensions Through Grammaticalization
    • 2.4 Unidirectionality Of Change
    • 2.5 Measuring Grammaticalization
    • 2.6 Textual Frequency And Grammaticalization
  • Complex Prepositional Phrases (75-104)   (568K)
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    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 Formal Properties Of PNP-Constructions
    • 3.3 General Characteristics Of PNP-Units In Arabic
    • 3.4 Grammaticalization of bi-n-nisbati li-/’ilā ‘in regards to, in comparison with’
    • 3.5 Grammaticalization of ‘alā/bi-r-raγmi min ‘in spite of, despite’
    • 3.6 Grammaticalization of bi-ḥājatin ’ilā/li- ‘in need of ’
    • 3.7 Grammaticalization of bi-n-naḏ̣ari ’ilā ‘in view of ’
    • 3.8 Grammaticalization of bi-n-niyābati ‘an ‘on behalf of ’
    • 3.9 Grammaticalization of bi-taḥrīḍin min ‘with incitement/prodding from/of ’
  • Compound-Like Prepositions (105-128)   (551K)
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    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 Grammaticalization of fī ’at̠nā’i ‘during’
    • 4.3 Grammaticalization of bi-faḍli ‘thanks to, owing to’
    • 4.4 Grammaticalization of min-nāḥiyati ‘with respect to’
    • 4.5 Grammaticalization of ‘an ṭarīqi ‘by way of, via’
    • 4.6 Grammaticalization Of Bi-Sababi ‘Because Of ’
  • Simple Stem Prepositionals (129-166)   (544K)
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    • 5.1 Introduction
    • 5.2 Grammaticalization Of Fawqa ‘Over, Above’
    • 5.3 Grammaticalization Of taḥta ‘under, beneath’
    • 5.4 Grammaticalization Of ’amāma ‘in front of, before’
    • 5.5 Grammaticalization Of Xalfa ‘Back, Behind’
  • Simple Stem “Primary” Prepositions (167-224)   (1M)
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    • 6.1 Introduction
    • 6.2 Grammaticalization Of fī ‘in, at’
    • 6.3 Grammaticalization Of ‘alā ‘on, above’
    • 6.4 Grammaticalization Of Min ‘From, Of ’
  • Bound-Stem Prepositional Forms (225-256)   (530K)
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    • 7.1 Introduction
    • 7.2 Grammaticalization Of LI- ‘To, For’
    • 7.3 Grammaticalization Of Bi- ‘In, At, With’
  • From Preposition To Clause Subordination (257-288)   (715K)
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    • 8.1 Prepositional Subordinators And Non-Prepositional Equivalents
    • 8.2 Prepositions And Subordinators: Formal Distinctions
    • 8.3 Interclausal Linkage Strategies
    • 8.4 Layering Of Prepositional Subordinators
    • 8.5 Layers Of Meanings
    • 8.6 Scales Of Grammaticalization For Subordinators
  • Causal, Concessive-Conditional, And Concessive Subordinators (289-338)   (614K)
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    • 9.1 Introduction
    • 9.2 Causal Relations
    • 9.3 Concessive-Conditional Relations
    • 9.4 Diachronic Textual Frequency
  • Summary And Conclusion (339-350)   (482K)
  • Appendix A (351-356)   (696K)
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    • Classical Arabic
    • Post-Classical/Medieval-Pre-Modern
    • Fiction
    • Non-Fiction (Total NW 579545)
    • Miscellaneous Non-Fiction
    • Newspapers
    • Dialectal Arabic
  • Bibliography (357-370)   (530K)
  • Indices (371-392)   (823K)
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    • Author Index
    • Subject Index