Alruwaili, Shatha & Sadler, Louisa: Negative Coordination in (Turaif) Arabic
We discuss the
combination of negation and coordination in an Arabic construction
which is somewhat akin to the neither....nor construction in
English and many other languages. In Arabic the form marking the
non-initial conjunct is transparently related to the and
coordinator rather than the or form. We provide an analysis of
bisyndetic negative coordination expressing both sentential and
constituent negation, and also as negative concord elements in certain
contexts. We draw exclusively on data from the Turaif variety of
Arabic in our discussion. The central facts concerning the use and
distribution of the bisyndetic negative coordination construction are
however broadly similar across the Arabic vernaculars.
December 22, 2022 |
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