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The three faces of the Arabic participle in Negev Bedouin dialects: continuous, resultative, and evidential

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Roni Henkin
Roni Henkin
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Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva
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The category of participle (P) usually includes at least two distinct paradigms. The terms for these vary, as it is not easy to determine the often language-specific nature of the opposition encoded in them. Temporal- ‘aspectual’ terminology is widely applied, giving present or ‘imperfect’ or progressive Ps as opposed to past, preterite, or ‘perfect’ Ps. An alternative popular opposition in many a linguistic tradition is of active vs. passive Ps. To avoid commitment to any of these nomenclatures, I use neutral formal terms: PI and P2.

In order to establish the place of P in the verbal system of a given language, the relevant verbal-syntactic categories of that particular system must first be isolated. For this, I define the following components of indicative verbal systems in non-aspectual languages.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , October 1992 , pp. 433 - 444
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1992

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