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Thematic Structure and Para-Syntax: Arabic as a Case Study (Routledge Studies in Arabic Linguistics) - Hardcover

Dickins, James

 
9780367367503: Thematic Structure and Para-Syntax: Arabic as a Case Study (Routledge Studies in Arabic Linguistics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0367367505 ISBN 13: 9780367367503
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Thematic Structure and Para-Syntax: Arabic as a Case Study presents a structural analysis of Arabic, providing an alternative to the traditional notions of theme and rheme.

Taking Arabic as a case study, this book claims that approaches to thematic structure propounded in universalist linguistic theories, of which Hallidayan systemic functional linguistics is taken as an illustrative example, are profoundly wrong. It argues that in order to produce an analysis of thematic structure and similar phenomena which is not undermined by its own theoretical presuppositions, it is necessary to remove such notions from the domain of linguistic and semiotic theory. The book initially focuses on Sudanese Arabic, because this allows for a beautifully clear exposition of general principles, before applying these principles to Modern Standard Arabic, and some other Arabic varieties.

This book will be of interest to scholars in Arabic linguistics, linguistic theory, and information structure.

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About the Author

James Dickins is Professor of Arabic at the University of Leeds.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367367505
ISBN 13 
9780367367503
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
166