BASIC STEM OPPOSITIONS IN CAIRO ARABIC TRILATERAL VERBS

• Authors: Drozdík Ladislav
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The ability of the Cairo Arabic verbs to provide functionally active basic stem oppositions is examined. The study concentrates on the trichotomous system faÓal, fiÓil and fuÓul. It examines their ability to convey some general grammatical and derivational meanings, such as transitivity and intransitivity, as well as more specific functions related to them such as causativity as opposed to reflexivity, activeness as against passiveness, with or without unpredictable lexical connotations. Some introductory parallels with Standard Arabic are provided.

Keywords

EN

STEM OPPOSITIONS; STANDARD ARABIC; TRILATERAL VERB; TRANSITIVITY; INTRANSITIVITY

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1 – 15

Contributors

author

Drozdík Ladislav

• Ústav orientalistiky SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic