Ouras Aljani
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ouras Aljani is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 18. Specificational vs. predicational wh -clefted questions in Arabic. Evidence for two (strong/weak) PRONs: Identity vs . predication The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 381–402 | Chapter
This paper extends the well-known predicational/specificational distinction — firmly established for basic copular constructions and, to a lesser extent, pseudoclefts — to wh-clefted questions in Syrian Arabic, drawing a parallel between a subtype of wh-clefts and ‘predicational interrogatives’… read more
2025 Chapter 6. Doubling unconditionals in Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXV: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Washington, D.C., 2022, Al-Qassas, Ahmad (ed.), pp. 137–157 | Chapter
We discuss wh-based unconditionals in Arabic (‘wherever she went, she was followed by photographers’), with special attention paid to the so-called doubling unconditionals in whose antecedents the predicate/clause is reduplicated (lit. ‘wher(ever) she went she went, she was followed by… read more