Aspect, tense and action in the Arabic dialect of Beirut / / by Stefan Bruweleit.

• Superior document: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume 79
• VerfasserIn: Bruweleit, Stefan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; Volume 79.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The linguistic categories of aspect, tense and action are closely interrelated. In the first part of Aspect, Tense and Action in the Arabic dialect of Beirut , Stefan Bruweleit defines the three categories and describes the interplay between them at a metagrammatical level. In the next parts he appl...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• 1 General Reflections on Universal Grammar
• 2 Tense
• 3 Aspect
• 4 Action
• 5 The Categorial Interplay
• 6 Negation
• 7 The Reference Point in Aspectual and Tense Languages
• 8 Introductory Remarks
• 9 Some Remarks on the Phonology and the Verb Forms
• 10 Anteriority to the Speech Time
• 11 Plural Situations
• 12 Simultaneity with a Reference Point in the Past
• 13 Anteriority to a Reference Point in the Past
• 14 Posteriority to a Reference Point in the Past
• 15 The Speech Time
• 16 Extratemporality
• 17 Posteriority to the Speech Time
• 18 Simultaneity with a Reference Point in the Future
• 19 Anteriority to a Reference Point in the Future
• 20 Verbs of Perception
• 21 Circumstantial Clauses
• 22 Conditional Clauses
• 23 Summary Arranged According to Chapter
• 24 Summary Arranged According to Verb Form
• 25 The Oppositions in the Verbal System
• 26 Some Remarks on the Evolution of the Arabic Verbal System
• 27 Aspects or Discussed and Narrated World?
• 28 Substitution Test
• 29 The Results of this Work
• Texts in the Dialect of Beirut
• Bibliography
• Index.