SAḤŪRI WALA TBŪRI ELATIVE STRUCTURES IN COLLOQUIAL PALESTINIAN ARABIC PROVERBS
SAḤŪRI WALA TBŪRI ELATIVE STRUCTURES IN COLLOQUIAL PALESTINIAN ARABIC PROVERBS
Author(s): Ward AqilSubject(s): Language studies, Semiotics / Semiology, Morphology, Lexis, Semantics, Language acquisition, Descriptive linguistics, Phraseology
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Proverb; Elative structure; Palestinian Arabic; Brevity; Symmetry; Rhyme;
Summary/Abstract: Elative structures are very frequent in old Arabic proverbs and in colloquial Arabic proverbs as well. The structure “X wala Y” is one of the most frequent and special elative structures in Arabic proverbs in general. The primary goal of this article is to introduce this structure and its specificity, considering the other elative structures which were found in Palestinian Arabic (PA) proverbs, and in Standard Arabic (SA) proverbs.
Journal: Romano-Arabica
- Issue Year: XVI/2016
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 193-200
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
