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The Tense Systems of Egyptian Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, and Standard Arabic

Domaine:

natural language processing

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paper
Créateur:
Ela
Éditeur:
Oxford University PressNew York, NY
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Abstract This chapter introduces the morphology of verbs in matrix clauses in Egyptian Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, and Standard Arabic. I will describe in sufficient detail the morphology of the past, present, and future tenses and the imperatives in the three dialects. The aim is to identify the different elements that can occupy the tense projection and their morpho-syntactic properties. In the course of the description, I discuss some of the prevailing assumptions about the morphology of tense and aspect in Arabic, particularly the auto segmental account, and suggest alternative analyses where necessary. The detailed description of tense in the three dialects will set the scene for the next two chapters, 3 and 4, which explore the formal features and the syntactic distribution of the various elements in the tense projection (TP).