Pain Constructions in modern Arabic dialects
A typological overview
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21820056 |
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| Authors | Stefano Manfredi (0000-0003-3648-5815, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 501-523 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Typology and Universals (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1867-8319 • E-ISSN: 2196-7148 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/stuf-2022-1061 |
| OpenAlex | W4310510879 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
Pain Constructions (PCs) constitute a class of experiential constructions expressing situations that involve unpleasant physical experiences (e.g. headache , burning eyes, dizziness , etc.). Previous cross-linguistic comparisons have shown that, though languages do not have dedicated morphosyntactic structures for encoding pain, there are certain constructions that are more likely to express physical experiences. Based on original data elicited by means of a situational questionnaire, this paper aims at analyzing the semantic and syntactic properties of PCs in modern Arabic dialects and to make typological generalizations about their cross-dialect variation. Benefiting from insights from both linguistic typology and contact linguistics, the study eventually shows that, despite considerable lexicosemantic and morphosyntactic variation, PCs in Arabic can be reduced to two main syntactic types: locational and inverse constructions
Arabic · Contrastive analysis · Linguistic typology · Linguistics · Negation · Semantic property · Situational ethics · Sociology · Typology · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism · Artificial Intelligence
Possession
Information Structure and Sentence Form
Dialectology and typology – An integrative perspective
On the grammar of pain
When subjects behave like objects
Aboutness as a Cognitive Category
Subject-verb order in spoken Arabic
The grammatical packaging of experiencers in ewe
Towards a typology of pain predicates
The thetic/categorical distinction revisited
The Grammar of Well-Being
| Highly cited | No |
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