Title: The Verb Transitivity of Muntafiq Arabic: A Morphosyntactic Mapping
Abstract: Transitivity refers to the linguistic system used to create experiential or ideational meaning, which is concerned with how entities and actions in a situation are coded in the language. It is a linguistic property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take direct objects and how many such objects a verb can take. of southern Iraqi varieties, Muntafiq Arabic stands as a shining example of having such a syntactic behavior, i.e. transitivity. The present paper is a concerted effort to draw morpho-syntactic lines on the map of Muntafiq verbal system and transitivity seems to be, among others, the phenomenon which really deserves scrutiny and speculation. The paper is chiefly based on data collecting in the city of Nassiryya (South of Iraq), at Shaikh Abbass’ guesthouse.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-09-25
Language: en
Type: article
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