Grammaticalization and Degrammaticalization in an Arabic Existential Particle šay
Against the usual assumption that Arabic grammatical operators based on reflexes of šay derive from the Arabic word for 'thing' šayʔ, it is argued here that indefinite quantifiers and partitives instead derive from an existential particle šay that is present in some spoken Arabic dialects...
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11073/16543 |
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