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Abstract

In this article I examine several patterns of grammaticalization of the verb in the Arabic dialect of Deir Ezzour in eastern Syria. is grammaticalized into grammemes expressing different grammatical categories: Epistemic modality, Evidentiality, Skepticism, Deontic obligation, Hortative modality, Preferentiality, Similative constructions, and Polar questions. While there have been previous studies on the grammaticalization of the verb in other varieties of Arabic, no other variety shows such extensive use of the verb in grammaticalization and is therefore of interest from a typological and comparative point of view. The mechanisms involved in grammaticalization in this dialect are by and large consistent with those found in other languages (cf. Kuteva et al., 2019).

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Keyword(s): grammaticalization; Mesopotamian Arabic; modality; qəltu Arabic; semantics
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