Tense and Text in Classical Arabic - A Discourse-Oriented Study of the Classical Arabic Tense System

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.

About the author

Michal Marmorstein, Ph.D. (Jerusalem, 2014), is a Kreitman Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ben-Gurion University. She has published articles on Classical Arabic syntax and discourse, focusing on topics such as the tense system, clause combining, narrative structure, and generic utterances. In Fall 2016 she will start as lecturer at the Department of Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Product details

• Authors: Michal Marmorstein
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9789004307476
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30747-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Studies in Semitic Languages a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics