SOME SET EXPRESSIONS RENDERING A SPEAKER’S ATTITUDE TO THE UTTERANCE IN THE EGYPTIAN ARABIC DIALECT
SOME SET EXPRESSIONS RENDERING A SPEAKER’S ATTITUDE TO THE UTTERANCE IN THE EGYPTIAN ARABIC DIALECT

Summary/Abstract: The present paper deals with of grammatical means expressing the speaker’s attitude to the utterance, in particular, set expressions. The analysis has been carried out on the basis of the Egyptian Arabic dialect. Verbs ba’a-yib’a-ib’a, ’ām, ’āl, particles ma, a-, wara, ’uddām, pronoun huwa are discussed, in particular, their modal semantics is studied, in which meanings unknown to literary Arabic are identified; a formal analysis is offered.

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