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This page is intended as a comprehensive bibliography of pseudocoordination in Arabic; for discussion, see Section 2.2.3.3 of Ross (2021). If you have any feedback or additional references to suggest, please contact me.
Status
- Description status: mentioned in many sources, few detailed studies
- Current bibliographic coverage: incomplete
- Total references: 7
- Last updated: December 2022, based on dissertation (Dec. 2021), Section 2.2.3.3
Summary
Pseudocoordination is attested in Arabic with motion, posture and other verbs, in both Classical/Modern Standard Arabic and modern colloquial varieties (where it alternates an asyndetic form); this topic is mentioned in many sources but there are few dedicated studies. The coordinator wa 'and' also has another function in circumstantial clauses.
Verbal pseudocoordination
Badawi, El-Said, Michael G. Carter & Adrian Gully. 2004. Modern Written Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203351758
Brustad, Kristen. 2000. The syntax of spoken Arabic: a comparative study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian, and Kuwaiti dialects. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
Di Caro, Vincenzo Nicolò. 2015. Syntactic constructions with motion verbs in some Sicilian dialects: a comparative analysis. Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia M.A. thesis. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/6229
Di Caro, Vincenzo Nicolò. 2017. Multiple Agreement Constructions: a macro-comparative analysis of pseudo-coordination with the motion verb go in the Arabic and Sicilian dialects. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics 19(2). 71–92. https://bwpl.unibuc.ro/vol-xix-nr-2/
Gamliel, Ophira & Abed al-Rahman Mar’i. 2015. Bleached Verbs as Aspectual Auxiliaries in Colloquial Modern Hebrew and Arabic Dialects. Journal of Jewish Languages 3(1–2). 51–65. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134638-12340039
Ross, Daniel. 2018. An Afro-Asiatic perspective on the definition of Serial Verb Constructions. Poster presented at the North Atlantic Conference On Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL) 46, California State University, Long Beach, California, June 2, 2018.
Circumstantial construction
In this construction, AND introduces a circumstantial clause; it is possible, however, that this function reflects historical usage of wa 'and' in a subordinating function before its coordinating function developed. Compare also the 'subordinating-and' construction in Irish.
Kammensjö, Heléne. 2015. Circumstantial Clause Linking in Egyptian Arabic Narration. In Bo Isaksson & Maria Persson (eds.), Clause Combining in Semitic: The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond, 15–53. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.