Adverbial usage in Egyptian colloquial Arabic
This study is concerned with the syntactic order of adverbials in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. The thesis reviews previous treatments of the adverb both in Arabic and English and investigates a consistent body of data from a particular type of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and specifically from female usage which differs in some respects from that of men. Previous treatments were mainly structural of the Bloomfieldian type or Transformational-Generative following the work of Noam Chomsky. Treatment of the adverb within the latter framework has undergone various changes throughout the years mainly centering around the place of generation of the Adverb within the tree of any particular sentence and also around the actual identification of certain strings as adverbial. The position taken in this study is that the adverb is any element of the sentence other than the obligatory major constituents, namely the subject and the predicate. Adverbs are thus optional or structurally disposable constituents, which may be deleted without affecting grammaticality. It is hypothesized that the distinct problems that adverbials pose for the analyst lie in the relative distributional freedom they enjoy in the sentence. Semantic
Shaady, Amal Abdel Ghany Abou
Linguistics
Adverbial usage in Egyptian colloquial Arabic. This study is concerned with the syntactic order of adverbials in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. The thesis reviews previous treatments of the adverb both in Arabic and English and investigates a consistent body of data from a particular type of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and specifically from female usage which differs in some respects from that of men. Previous treatments were mainly structural of the Bloomfieldian type or Transformational-Generative following the work of Noam Chomsky. Treatment of the adverb within the latter framework has undergone various changes throughout the years mainly centering around the place of generation of the Adverb within the tree of any particular sentence and also around the actual identification of certain strings as adverbial. The position taken in this study is that the adverb is any element of the sentence other than the obligatory major constituents, namely the subject and the predicate. Adverbs are thus optional or structurally disposable constituents, which may be deleted without affecting grammaticality. It is hypothesized that the distinct problems that adverbials pose for the analyst lie in the relative distributional freedom they enjoy in the sentence. Semantic
adverbial usage egyptian colloquial_arabic study_concern syntactic order adverbial egyptian colloquial_arabic review_previous treatment adverb arabic_english investigate consistent body data particular_type egyptian colloquial_arabic specifically female usage differs respect men previous treatment mainly structural type transformational_generative follow work chomsky treatment adverb within latter framework undergone various change_throughout year mainly center around place generation adverb within tree particular sentence also around actual identification certain string adverbial position_take study adverb element_sentence obligatory major constituent namely subject predicate adverbs thus optional structurally constituent may delete without affect grammaticality hypothesize distinct problem adverbial pose analyst lie relative distributional freedom enjoy sentence semantic