Arabic indefinites, interrogatives, and negators : a linguistic history of western dialects /

This book traces the origins and development of the Arabic grammatical marker s/si, which is found in interrogatives, negators, and indefinite determiners over a broad dialect area that stretches from the southern Levant to North Africa and includes dialects of Yemen and Oman. David Wilmsen draws on...

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Main Author: Wilmsen, David William (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 14.
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