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Possessive Genitive, Dative Construction and TAM Categories

Samia Naïm

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In some varieties of colloquial Arabic found in the Oriental (Syro-Palestino-Lebanese) and South Arabian areas, there exists a possessive predicative construction marked by the dative-allative preposition li/a. This construction coexists with much more recurrent ones taht resort to a locative and / or a comitative preposition to encode possession. In the same way, the li/a preposition is attested in a specific indirect adnominal possessive construction where it functions as a genitive exponent instead of the more regular taba' of the Oriental area. In other instances, li/a also occurs in atypical transitive and dative constructions. We will be concerned with those particular li constructions which bring to light certain diachronic correlations between the dative construction, the genitive construction, aspect and modality.
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halshs-00907019 , version 1 (20-11-2013)

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Samia Naïm. Possessive Genitive, Dative Construction and TAM Categories. Journal of Semitic Studies, 2009, pp.181-194. ⟨halshs-00907019⟩
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