Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique
Ce séminaire reçoit des conférenciers invités spécialisés dans différents domaines de la linguistique. Les membres du Département, les étudiants et les personnes externes intéressées sont tous cordialement invités. Description du séminaire 
| Titre | “feš taqra?” What are you reading? Prepositional objects in Tunisian Arabic | |
| Conférencier | Margherita Pallottino | |
| Date | mardi 04 octobre 2016 | |
| Heure | 12h15 | |
| Salle | L208 (Bâtiment Candolle) | |
| Description | In this talk I will discuss movement patterns, distribution and some selectional properties of the two inflected paradigms of Tunisian Arabic: perfective and imperfective. Perfective predicates are finite forms, always undergo movement to negation and are able to select any type of direct object, be it a bare noun or a definite description, see (1): 1) a. Sɛmi klɛ (əl)-kosksi Semi eat.perf the-couscous Semi ate (the) couscous b. Sɛmi ma-klɛ-š(əl)-kosksi Semi eat.perf couscous Semi ate couscous Imperfective predicates acts less as a unified class: in some contexts they present the same movement pattern as the perfective ones (2), while in other cases they do not undergo movement to negation showing a behavior that reminds this of non-finite verb forms (3): 2) a. Sɛmi yəkl kosksi Semi eat.imp couscous Semi eats couscous Intended meaning ‘Semi usually eats couscous’ b. Sɛmi, ma-yəkl-škosksi Semi neg.eat.imp.neg couscous Semi does not eats couscous Intended meaning ‘Semi doesn’t usually eat couscous’ 3) a. Sɛmi yəkl fi-l-kosksi Semi eat.imp fi-the-couscous Semi eats fi the couscous Intended meaning ‘Semi is eating the couscous’ b. Sɛmi ma-hu-šyəkl fi-l-kosksi Semi eat.imp fi-the-couscous Semi eats fi the couscous Intended meaning ‘Semi is not eating the couscous’ The examples above illustrate that there are more pieces to the puzzle and that the absence/presence of verb movement to negation also correlates with both the presence/absence of an additional structural layer headed by the preposition “fi” above the direct object and the alternation between the episodic and the generic reading of the sentence. In this presentation I will discuss the details of the paradigm illustrated above; I will explain how the verb form interacts with the selection of the direct object and put forward an account of the facts centered on the idea that this variety of Arabic allows for hidden periphrastic verbal constructions. |
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