A taxonomy of antonymy in Arabic: Egyptian and Saudi proverbs in comparison

This study has set out to identify, quantify, typify, and exemplify the discourse functions of canonical antonymy in Arabic paremiography by comparing two manually collected datasets from Egyptian and Saudi (Najdi) dialects. Building upon Jones’s (2002) most extensive and often-cited classification...

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Main Authors: Hassanein Hamada, Mahzari Mohammad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2021-06-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2021-0013