Youssef A. Haddad Knihy

"This book is the product of over a decade of experience teaching an introductory course on Arabic linguistics. It is primarily intended as a textbook. Focusing mainly on Modern Standard Arabic and Levantine Arabic, the purpose of this textbook is to help students understand how Arabic works by explaining the key elements of the language and by equipping students with the linguistic tools needed to analyze these elements. In addition to an introduction and a conclusion, the book is made of three parts. Part One focuses on Arabic sounds and sound systems, referred to in linguistics as phonetics and phonology. Part Two deals with Arabic words and word structure, or morphology. Part Three focuses on Arabic phrases and phrase structure, also known as syntax. Each part is divided into four chapters. The first chapter introduces the linguistic subfield and explains the tools needed for the discussion and analysis of the Arabic linguistic details presented in the following three chapters"-- Provided by publisher

The book investigates Adjunct Control in Assamese, an Indo-Aryan language spoken by around 15 million people in North India, using the Minimalist Program of syntactic theory. Adjunct Control refers to the co-referential relationship between subjects in the matrix and adjunct clauses. The focus is on non-finite Conjunctive Participle (CNP) clauses in Assamese. Four types of Adjunct Control are analyzed: (i) Forward Control, where only the matrix subject is pronounced; (ii) Backward Control, with only the subordinate subject pronounced; (iii) Copy Control, in which both subjects are pronounced; and (iv) Expletive Control, involving expletive control elements. While Forward Control is common across languages, Assamese also permits the other three less frequent structures. The author treats Adjunct Control as movement and details the conditions influencing each control type. The theoretical implications are emphasized. This work is both empirically and theoretically distinctive, being the first monograph on Assamese generative syntax and the first to examine control structures in such depth within a single understudied language. Additionally, it includes data from Telugu, Bengali, Konkani, Marathi, Tamil, and Hindi.