Rashid Al-Balushi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5858747 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rashid Al-Balushi |
| PRENOMES | Rashid |
| SOBRENOME | Al-Balushi |
| ASSINATURA | AL-BALUSHI R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Sultan Qaboos University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
The Subject of Yashāʼ and Yaqdir in Rizq/Provision Verses
This article looks into some Qurʼānic verses that feature the verbs yashāʼ and yaqdir in relation to the concept of “giving rizq/provision” or “providing sustenance.” Yashāʼ means “to will”/“to wish” and yaqdir is traditionally understood to mean “to give limited provision,” but I argue that it means “to be able to.” These verses are traditionally interpreted to mean that Allah decides on whom to give abundant provision and whom to give limited p…
The Linguistic Reanalysis and Reinterpretation of Qur’ānic Verse 37 of Sūrat al-Qiyāmah
Qur’ānic verses have always received new interpretations in light of new historical evidence or scientific discoveries. This paper argues for the thesis that Qur’ānic verses may also receive new interpretations in light of novel construal of their linguistic properties. It proposes new interpretations of verse 37 of sūrat al-Qiyāmah (Resurrection, 75:37) based on a reanalysis of its structure, which leads to re-identifying what was traditionally …
Pronominalization and clitic doubling in Syrian and Omani Arabic
This article treats cliticization of a pronoun to a syntactic host and doubling of the clitic pronoun with a non-pronominal counterpart in Syrian and Omani Arabic. Although the two varieties are closely related and the morphological paradigms they display are very similar, the pronominalization and clitic pronoun doubling patterns they display are quite different. We trace this difference to a basic difference in whether the relevant syntactic pr…
On The ʾaṣ-Ṣulb and ʾat-Tarāʾib
Allah Almighty says in verses (Q. 86:5-7) that the human being is created from ‘gushing water’ that emanates from between ʾaṣ-ṣulb and ʾat-tarāʾib. These two terms have been associated with different body parts in the traditional interpretations and modern translations of the Holy Qurʾān, as well as in some of the contemporary investigations into the issue of human procreation. This paper surveys these views, and cites two modern views on this is…
Subject licensing in non-verbal clauses in Arabic
This paper investigates the licensing of subjects in Standard Arabic participial clauses. Unlike verbal clauses, whose subject may appear post-verbally, the subject of participial clauses must precede the participle, having properties of topics of verbal clauses. I claim that this is because the canonical subject position, [Spec, vP], is not available for subjects of participles, due to lack of Nom Case. It is shown that neither tense nor a copul…
The ‘believe’-construction in Standard Arabic
This paper presents an analysis for the ‘believe’-construction in Standard Arabic (SA). The analysis proposed here assumes the Visibility Condition , whereby structural Case is necessary to render arguments visible at LF for θ-role assignment (Aoun 1979, Chomsky 1981). The earlier approaches are untenable because they do not make proper provision for the Case-visibility requirements of the complement clause of ‘believe’. Thus, they are not extend…
Forthcoming articles
A perceptual cue constraint approach to postnasal laryngeal alternations
Verbal and Nominal Case Suffixes in Standard Arabic
The Traditional Arab Grammarians (TAGs) (Sībawayhi 8th century) assigned somewhat similar terminology for the inflectional states of Standard Arabic (SA) verbs and nouns. Verbs could be either marfūʕ ‘Indicative’, manṣūb ‘Subjunctive’, majzūm ‘Jussive’, or mabnī ‘uninflected for mood’, making reference to so-called ‘mood’ endings. Likewise, nouns could be either marfūʕ ‘Nominative’, manṣūb ‘Accusative’, majrūr ‘Genitive’, or mabnī ‘uninflected fo…
Why verbless sentences in Standard Arabic are verbless
This article aims to account for why verbless sentences in Standard Arabic lack a copular verb. In contrast to previous accounts which attribute the absence of the copula to some defect of present tense, I claim that a verbless sentence does not take a copula because its nominais do not need structural Case. The proposed analysis argues that structural Case is licensed by a “Verbal Case” feature on the relevant Case-checking heads, and assumes th…
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Why verbless sentences in Standard Arabic are verbless
This article aims to account for why verbless sentences in Standard Arabic lack a copular verb. In contrast to previous accounts which attribute the absence of the copula to some defect of present tense, I claim that a verbless sentence does not take a copula because its nominais do not need structural Case. The proposed analysis argues that structural Case is licensed by a “Verbal Case” feature on the relevant Case-checking heads, and assumes th…
Verbal and Nominal Case Suffixes in Standard Arabic
The Traditional Arab Grammarians (TAGs) (Sībawayhi 8th century) assigned somewhat similar terminology for the inflectional states of Standard Arabic (SA) verbs and nouns. Verbs could be either marfūʕ ‘Indicative’, manṣūb ‘Subjunctive’, majzūm ‘Jussive’, or mabnī ‘uninflected for mood’, making reference to so-called ‘mood’ endings. Likewise, nouns could be either marfūʕ ‘Nominative’, manṣūb ‘Accusative’, majrūr ‘Genitive’, or mabnī ‘uninflected fo…
The ‘believe’-construction in Standard Arabic
This paper presents an analysis for the ‘believe’-construction in Standard Arabic (SA). The analysis proposed here assumes the Visibility Condition , whereby structural Case is necessary to render arguments visible at LF for θ-role assignment (Aoun 1979, Chomsky 1981). The earlier approaches are untenable because they do not make proper provision for the Case-visibility requirements of the complement clause of ‘believe’. Thus, they are not extend…
Forthcoming articles
A perceptual cue constraint approach to postnasal laryngeal alternations
Subject licensing in non-verbal clauses in Arabic
This paper investigates the licensing of subjects in Standard Arabic participial clauses. Unlike verbal clauses, whose subject may appear post-verbally, the subject of participial clauses must precede the participle, having properties of topics of verbal clauses. I claim that this is because the canonical subject position, [Spec, vP], is not available for subjects of participles, due to lack of Nom Case. It is shown that neither tense nor a copul…
On The ʾaṣ-Ṣulb and ʾat-Tarāʾib
Allah Almighty says in verses (Q. 86:5-7) that the human being is created from ‘gushing water’ that emanates from between ʾaṣ-ṣulb and ʾat-tarāʾib. These two terms have been associated with different body parts in the traditional interpretations and modern translations of the Holy Qurʾān, as well as in some of the contemporary investigations into the issue of human procreation. This paper surveys these views, and cites two modern views on this is…
The Linguistic Reanalysis and Reinterpretation of Qur’ānic Verse 37 of Sūrat al-Qiyāmah
Qur’ānic verses have always received new interpretations in light of new historical evidence or scientific discoveries. This paper argues for the thesis that Qur’ānic verses may also receive new interpretations in light of novel construal of their linguistic properties. It proposes new interpretations of verse 37 of sūrat al-Qiyāmah (Resurrection, 75:37) based on a reanalysis of its structure, which leads to re-identifying what was traditionally …
Pronominalization and clitic doubling in Syrian and Omani Arabic
This article treats cliticization of a pronoun to a syntactic host and doubling of the clitic pronoun with a non-pronominal counterpart in Syrian and Omani Arabic. Although the two varieties are closely related and the morphological paradigms they display are very similar, the pronominalization and clitic pronoun doubling patterns they display are quite different. We trace this difference to a basic difference in whether the relevant syntactic pr…
The Subject of Yashāʼ and Yaqdir in Rizq/Provision Verses
This article looks into some Qurʼānic verses that feature the verbs yashāʼ and yaqdir in relation to the concept of “giving rizq/provision” or “providing sustenance.” Yashāʼ means “to will”/“to wish” and yaqdir is traditionally understood to mean “to give limited provision,” but I argue that it means “to be able to.” These verses are traditionally interpreted to mean that Allah decides on whom to give abundant provision and whom to give limited p…
Computer Science (7 obras) · Linguistics (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (5 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 obras) · Verb (4 obras) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (3 obras) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 obras) · Law (3 obras)