Inna and Her Sisters of Arabic and the That-Clause Phenomenon
- Authors
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Khaled Al-Asbahi
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- Keywords:
- Syntax, Semantics, Arabic Linguistics, Case Assignment, Grammatical Structures
- Abstract
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Inna and her sisters of Arabic are five elements called “particles” by the traditional Arab grammarians. These so-called particles have the nature of a transitive verb of some type in that they assign accusative Case to their
complements. Further, their semantic meaning is more like verb than whatever they might be. Compare between the set of sentences in 1 and 2 in the following examples: - Downloads
- Published
- 2012-07-09
- Issue
- Vol. 1 No. 1 (2012)
- Section
- Articles
How to Cite
Asbahi, K. A.-. (2012). Inna and Her Sisters of Arabic and the That-Clause Phenomenon. International Journal of English and Education, 1(1), 96-136. https://ijee.org/ijee/article/view/852