Aspect, Tense and Action in the Arabic Dialect of Beirut.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Part 1 The Theoretical Basis -- Chapter 1 General Reflections on Universal Grammar -- Chapter 2 Tense -- Chapter 3 Aspect -- 3.1 General Remarks -- 3.2 still-situations -- 3.3 while-situations -- 3.4 until-situations -- 3.5 before-situations -- 3.6 since- / for-situations -- 3.7 circumstantial situations -- 3.8 after-situations -- 3.9 Verbs of Perception -- 3.10 Resultative Verbs -- Chapter 4 Action -- 4.1 General Remarks -- 4.2 complex : simplex -- 4.3 punctual : durative -- 4.4 telic : atelic -- Chapter 5 The Categorial Interplay -- 5.1 General Remarks -- 5.2 Tense and Aspect -- 5.2.1 + Tense and Imperfectivity -- 5.2.2 + Tense and Perfectivity -- 5.2.3 - Tense and Aspect -- 5.3 Action and Tense -- 5.4 Action and Aspect -- 5.5 Summary -- Chapter 6 Negation -- Chapter 7 The Reference Point in Aspectual and Tense Languages -- Part 2 The Arabic Dialect of Beirut -- Chapter 8 Introductory Remarks -- Chapter 9 Some Remarks on the Phonology and the Verb Forms -- 9.1 Phonology -- 9.2 The Verb Forms -- Chapter 10 Anteriority to the Speech Time -- 10.1 Non-habitual Anteriority to the Speech Time -- 10.1.1 Main Clauses -- 10.1.2 Subordinate Clauses -- 10.2 Habitual Anteriority to the Speech Time -- 10.2.1 Main Clauses -- 10.2.2 Subordinate Clauses -- Chapter 11 Plural Situations -- 11.1 Main Clauses -- 11.2 Subordinate Clauses -- Chapter 12 Simultaneity with a Reference Point in the Past -- 12.1 Simple Simultaneity -- 12.1.1 Main Clauses -- 12.1.2 Subordinate Clauses -- 12.2 since- / for-situations and still-situations -- 12.2.1 Main Clauses -- 12.2.2 still-situations -- 12.2.3 Subordinate clauses of since- / for- and still-situations -- Chapter 13 Anteriority to a Reference Point in the Past -- 13.1 Main Clauses -- 13.2 Subordinate Clauses -- 13.3 before-situations.

13.4 until-situations -- Chapter 14 Posteriority to a Reference Point in the Past -- 14.1 Main and Subordinate Clauses -- Chapter 15 The Speech Time -- 15.1 Non-habituality with Present Time Reference -- 15.1.1 Simultaneity with the Speech Time -- 15.1.1.1 Main Clauses -- 15.1.1.2 Subordinate Clauses -- 15.1.2 Since- / for-situations -- 15.1.2.1 Main Clauses -- 15.1.2.2 Subordinate Clauses -- 15.1.3 Situations that are Restricted to a Limited Period of Time -- 15.1.3.1 Main Clauses -- 15.1.3.2 Subordinate Clauses -- 15.2 Habituality with Present Time Reference -- 15.2.1 Main Clauses -- 15.2.2 Subordinate Clauses -- Chapter 16 Extratemporality -- Chapter 17 Posteriority to the Speech Time -- 17.1 Main Clauses -- 17.2 Subordinate Clauses -- Chapter 18 Simultaneity with a Reference Point in the Future -- 18.1 Main and Subordinate Clauses -- Chapter 19 Anteriority to a Reference Point in the Future -- 19.1 Main and Subordinate Clauses -- Chapter 20 Verbs of Perception -- Chapter 21 Circumstantial Clauses -- Chapter 22 Conditional Clauses -- Part 3 Summary and Analysis -- Chapter 23 Summary Arranged According to Chapter -- 23.1 Non-habitual Anteriority to the Speech Time -- 23.2 Habitual Anteriority to the Speech Time -- 23.3 Plural Situations -- 23.4 Simultaneity with a Reference Point in the Past -- 23.5 Anteriority to a Reference Point in the Past -- 23.6 Posteriority to a Reference Point in the Past -- 23.7 Simultaneity with the Speech Time -- 23.8 Habitual Situations with Present Time Reference -- 23.9 Extratemporality -- 23.10 Posteriority to the Speech Time -- 23.11 Simultaneity with a Reference Point in the Future -- 23.12 Anteriority to a Reference Point in the Future -- 23.13 Verbs of Perception -- 23.14 Circumstantial Clauses -- 23.15 Conditional Clauses -- Chapter 24 Summary Arranged According to Verb Form -- 24.1 The AP -- 24.2 qatal.

24.3 yiqtul -- 24.4 byiqtul -- 24.5 raḥyiqtul -- 24.6 ʿamyiqtul -- Chapter 25 The Oppositions in the Verbal System -- Chapter 26 Some Remarks on the Evolution of the Arabic Verbal System -- 26.1 Introduction -- 26.2 The Verb Forms in Classical Arabic -- 26.3 The Transition from the Old Arabic to the New Arabic Verbal System -- Chapter 27 Aspects or Discussed and Narrated World? -- Chapter 28 Substitution Test -- Chapter 29 The Results of this Work -- Appendices -- Texts in the Dialect of Beirut -- Bibliography -- Index.

In this book, Stefan Bruweleit describes the categories of aspect, tense and action at a metagrammatical level and investigates the verb system of the dialect of Beirut.

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