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Tense and Text in Classical Arabic


Author: Marmorstein, Michal
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Publisher: Brill
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In Tense and Text in Classical Arabic, Michal Marmorstein presents a discourse-oriented analysis of the indicative tense system in Classical Arabic. The study demonstrates the effect of the extended syntactic and textual context on the function of the verbal forms. Readership: Scholars of Classical Arabic syntax and discourse, Arabic grammatical tradition, comparative Semitic syntax, and anyone concerned with Arabic linguistics.