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Subject: Basic verbs
Subject: Corpus linguistics
Departments: Department of Linguistics
Languages: English
Collections: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
Collections: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of /Theses and Dissertations
Supervisors: Rice, Sally (Linguistics)
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Fall 2013
In this dissertation, I present a corpus-based, constructionist account of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) GO verbs (ḏahaba, maḍā, and rāḥa) and COME verbs (atā, ḥaḍara, ǧā’a, and qadima). These seven deictic motion verbs count among the most frequent lexical items in MSA, nevertheless, they are...
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