Lucas, Christopher and Alluhaybi, Mohammed (2022) 'The typology of negation across varieties of Arabic.' STUF - Language Typology and Universals - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 75 (4). pp. 613-641.
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Abstract
Drawing primarily on the data collated by Alluhaybi (2019. Negation in modern Arabic varieties from a typological point of view. London: SOAS University of London PhD thesis), this article first situates Arabic within the crosslinguistic typology of negative strategies put forward, among others, by Miestamo (2005. Standard negation: The negation of declarative verbal main clauses in a typological perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter). It then surveys the main parameters of variation among different varieties of Arabic in the expression of standard negation, non-verbal negation, and negative imperatives, with a particular focus on the issue of the single versus bipartite expression of negation. The article finishes by looking at some recent debates concerning the diachronic evolution of the observed patterns.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | Jespersen’s cycle; negative imperatives; standard negation |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics > Department of Linguistics |
| ISSN: | 21967148 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2022-1065 |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2022 11:21 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/36814 |
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