Aspectual object marking in Libyan Arabic
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https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2016.7Abstract
In Libyan Arabic, the preposition fi 'in' has developed into a marker of continuous or habitual aspect. While structurally remaining a preposition which marks the objects of the non-tensed forms of dynamic transitive verbs, it serves to attribute an aspectual interpretation to the clause as a whole. We argue that this aspectual object marking is naturally modeled by an inside-out functional designator, and provide arguments that the aspectual value contributed by aspectual fi is best treated as an f-structure feature.
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2016-12-16
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Börjars, Kersti & Ghadgoud, Khawla & Payne, John. 2016. Aspectual object marking in Libyan Arabic. Proceedings of the Joint 2016 Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional Grammar 125–139. (doi:10.21248/hpsg.2016.7) (https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/526) (Accessed March 20, 2025.)
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