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Peer reviewedDeMiller, Anna L. – Al-Arabiyya, 1988
Examines the syntactic and semantic relationship between verb forms I and II in modern standard Arabic. The main function of form II verbs was causative/factitive, with the core elements of the causative including (1) agent-subject, (2) action-process verb, and (3) patient-object. (CB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Patterns, Semantics
