Remarks on Focus in Standard Arabic

Ouhalla, Jamal

doi:10.1075/cilt.153.04ouh

In:Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
Edited by Mushira Eid and Robert R. Ratcliffe
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 153] 1997
► pp. 9–46

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Remarks on Focus in Standard Arabic

Jamal Ouhalla

Published online: 12 August 1997

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.153.04ouh

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