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Linglib.Fragments.Arabic.ModernStandard.Pronouns

Modern Standard Arabic Pronoun Profile (WALS Chs 39, 40, 44–48; Chs 136–137) #

@cite{wals-2013} @cite{ryding-2005}

WALS-style typological summary of MSA's personal pronoun system. Ryding ch 12 (pp. 298–314) gives the full paradigm; this file records the typological-feature dimensions only (which are also the dimensions on which MSA and Egyptian Arabic largely agree).

Forms (for reference, not encoded as data here) #

Independent personal pronouns (Ryding §12.1 Table p. 298; the Damaaʾir munfaSila الضمائر المنفصلة):

The dual category (MSA-distinctive — Egyptian Arabic has lost it) is the most visible MSA-vs-Egyptian contrast. Suffix pronouns (the Damaaʾir muttaSila الضمائر المتصلة, Ryding §12.2 p. 301) are phonologically reduced clitics on nouns / verbs / prepositions (kitaab-i-hi 'his book', bi-haa 'with her', qaal-uu-hu 'they said it').

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def Fragments.Arabic.ModernStandard.pronounProfile :
Typology.PronounProfile

Modern Standard Arabic (Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, ISO arb). MSA matches Egyptian on every WALS dimension surveyed here except for the presence of the dual: MSA marks 2DU (ʾantumaa) and 3DU (humaa), which Egyptian has lost. Per Ryding §12.1 (p. 298).

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    def Fragments.Arabic.ModernStandard.pronounShapeProfile :
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    MSA pronoun phonological shape (WALS Chs 136–137 per @cite{nichols-peterson-2013}): no M-T pattern (1SG ʾanaa lacks /m/; 2SG ʾanta has /t/, not /m/), no N-M pattern (2SG has /t/, not /m/). 1SG ʾanaa contains /n/ but the diagnostic requires the /n/ ~ /m/ pair, which is not present.

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