The distribution of nafs in modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic: a corpus-based study

Purpose – This corpus-based study provides a descriptive account of the distribution of the polysemous noun nafs in two Arabic varieties, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Classical Arabic (CA). The research objective is to survey the use of nafs as a reflexive marker in local binding domains and as...

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Main Author: Amani Mejri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emerald Publishing 2022-06-01
Series:Saudi Journal of Language Studies
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Online Access:https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/SJLS-03-2022-0038/full/pdf