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Grammaticalization of Arabic Prepositions and Subordinators

Grammaticalization of Arabic Prepositions and Subordinators Book Reviews 95 MOHSSEN ESSEESY, 2010 Leiden and Boston, Mass.: Brill xxiv + 390 pp., ill. €171.00/US$238.00 (hardback) ISBN 9789004185876 In this book, the author presents a diachronic study of a few Arabic prepositions and subordinators. It is based on a corpus including the Qur’a¯n, the pre-modern text of One Thousand and One Nights, and Brigham Young University’s Arabic Corpus Tool, which contains modern literature, newspapers and contemporary Egyptian collo- quial (p. xviii). Using the theoretical frame of grammaticalisation, the author shows that “as un-codified, free-evolving vernaculars, Arabic dialects may show divergence from CA [Classical Arabic] and MSA [Modern Standard Arabic] norms, but as far as the manifestation of the functional categories in them, they generally exhibit features of more advanced stages of grammaticalisation than does MSA or CA” (p. 7). In chapter two (pp. 31–74), the author presents the theoretical frame of gramma- ticalisation, an explanatory theory which is far from being widely accepted among linguists. Probably coined by Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) in 1912, the process of grammaticalisation can be provisionally described as the “semantic bleaching” of a word and its use as a grammatical morpheme. Chapters three to seven are organised according to the following pattern: the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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Book Reviews 95 MOHSSEN ESSEESY, 2010 Leiden and Boston, Mass.: Brill xxiv + 390 pp., ill. €171.00/US$238.00 (hardback) ISBN 9789004185876 In this book, the author presents a diachronic study of a few Arabic prepositions and subordinators. It is based on a corpus including the Qur’a¯n, the pre-modern text of One Thousand and One Nights, and Brigham Young University’s Arabic Corpus Tool, which contains modern literature, newspapers and contemporary Egyptian collo- quial...
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© 2014 Jean N. Druel
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Book Reviews 95 MOHSSEN ESSEESY, 2010 Leiden and Boston, Mass.: Brill xxiv + 390 pp., ill. €171.00/US$238.00 (hardback) ISBN 9789004185876 In this book, the author presents a diachronic study of a few Arabic prepositions and subordinators. It is based on a corpus including the Qur’a¯n, the pre-modern text of One Thousand and One Nights, and Brigham Young University’s Arabic Corpus Tool, which contains modern literature, newspapers and contemporary Egyptian collo- quial (p. xviii). Using the theoretical frame of grammaticalisation, the author shows that “as un-codified, free-evolving vernaculars, Arabic dialects may show divergence from CA [Classical Arabic] and MSA [Modern Standard Arabic] norms, but as far as the manifestation of the functional categories in them, they generally exhibit features of more advanced stages of grammaticalisation than does MSA or CA” (p. 7). In chapter two (pp. 31–74), the author presents the theoretical frame of gramma- ticalisation, an explanatory theory which is far from being widely accepted among linguists. Probably coined by Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) in 1912, the process of grammaticalisation can be provisionally described as the “semantic bleaching” of a word and its use as a grammatical morpheme. Chapters three to seven are organised according to the following pattern: the

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