THE STRUCTURE OF NON-FINITE RELATIVE CLAUSES IN ARABIC

• Authors: Drozdik Ladislav
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The function, played by the non-finite relative clauses (RCs), is not free from ambiguous interpretations oscillating between attributive modification and predication. The same holds true of the syntactic contexts where these disputed linguistic constructions operate: simple sentences with embedded attributive phrases or complex sentences with autonomous RCs? The following text aims to show that the difference between these two interpretations results from arbitrary criteria and the duality of finite and non-finite RCs is a matter of different relative-clause-forming strategies.

Keywords

EN

ARABIC; CATEGORY OF FINITENESS; CLAUSAL/PHRASAL CLASSIFICATION; FINITE/NON-FINITE RELATIVE CLAUSES; LINGUISTICS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 210-231
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Drozdik Ladislav

• Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• Ladislav Drozdik, Ustav orientalistiky SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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CEJSH db identifier

10SKAAAA086616