Topic particles in the North Hail dialect of Najdi Arabic

This thesis investigates a set of clause-initial discourse particles in North Hail Arabic (NHA), a dialect spoken in Saudi Arabia. The particles are shown to be heads in the C-domain with topic-marking function. It is shown that the topics typology put forward by Frascarelli and Hinterhölzl (2007)...

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Main Author: Alshamari, Murdhy Radad D.
Published: University of Newcastle upon Tyne 2017
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.748176