Jamal Ouhalla
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jamal Ouhalla is involved.
2025 Chapter 20. Existentials: The view from Afroasiatic The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 416–437 | Chapter
This article explores the existentials of selected Afroasiatic languages that collectively provide evidence for a compositional main predicate that consists of an existential operator and a substantive component in the shape of a Stage-Level predicate. The existential operator is typically… read more
2014 The development of future participles and future tense markers from motion predicates: Semantic, morphosyntactic and structural reduction Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. New York, 2012, Khamis, Reem and Karen Froud (eds.), pp. 9–28 | Article
In this paper I outline an analysis for the development of the Moroccan Arabic motion participles ġadi ‘going’ and maši ‘going’ into future participles and future tense markers, and explore the implications of this process for the nature of the lexicon and word-derivation. The analysis is framed in… read more
2014 Causatives, anticausatives and lexicalization The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli (eds.), pp. 333–348 | Article
Moroccan Arabic has many transitive verbs that are causative in form and meaning but lack intransitive variants that are non-causative in form and meaning. Instead, the non-causative intransitive use of these verbs requires morphosyntactic derivation by anticausativization. This article explores… read more
2012 Chapter 3. Lexical change and the architecture of the Lexicon Of Grammar, Words, and Verses: In honor of Carlos Piera, Torrego, Esther (ed.), pp. 41–66 | Article
This chapter explores new evidence from lexical change in connection with the debate concerning the nature of the Lexicon: whether it is root-based or word-based. A principled distinction is drawn between (genuine) lexical change, which affects roots, and grammaticalization, which affects selected… read more
2000 Possession in Sentences and Noun phrases Research in Afroasiatic Grammar: Papers from the Third conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis, 1996, Lecarme, Jacqueline, Jean Lowenstamm and Ur Shlonsky (eds.), pp. 221–242 | Article
1999 Focus and Arabic Clefts The Grammar of Focus, Rebuschi, Georges and Laurice Tuller (eds.), pp. 335–360 | Article
1997 Genitive Subjects and the VSO Order Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation, Alexiadou, Artemis and Tracy Alan Hall (eds.), pp. 197–218 | Article
1997 Remarks on Focus in Standard Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Eid, Mushira and Robert R. Ratcliffe (eds.), pp. 9–46 | Article
1995 Negation and modality in early child Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Eid, Mushira (ed.), pp. 69–92 | Article