One of the Arabic Folk Poetry Forms, Kâne wa Kâne Kâne wa Kâne

Dake-wa : Exhaustifying Assertions

Following the structure meaning approach (c.f. [3,4]), I argued in [5] that the prosodic peak of Contrastive-marking creates a partition of the asserted proposition into B (background) and F (Focus). The morphological wa-marking then introduces the Con operator that takes the structured meaning as its argument and yields a conventional implicature. The Contrastive-marked sentence presupposes th...

Western Australia , Perth , WA , Australia

We have recently suggested that numerosity is a primary sensory attribute, and shown that it is strongly susceptible to adaptation. Here we use the Method of Single Stimuli to show that observers can extract a running average of numerosity of a succession of stimuli to use as a standard of comparison for subsequent stimuli. On separate sessions observers judged whether the perceived numerosity ...

The Arabic Particles ‘inna Wa Aḫawātu-ha ̄’ at the Syntax- Semantics Interface

OF THESIS THE ARABIC PARTICLES ‘INNA WA AḪAWA ̄TU-HA ̄ ’ AT THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE In Arabic inna wa-aḫawātu-hā ‘inna and its related sisters’ are traditionally considered as verb-like particles. They are specified as introducing equational sentences and change their constituents’ case to a different pattern from what verbs do. Therefore, they are called nawāsiḫ in Arabic, or words that c...

The Gamer Subculture in Lacy, WA

The Conditioning of Stress Position in Wa W Consecutive Perfect Forms in Biblical Hebrew

I. This paper attempts to add some further details to our understanding of the position of the word stress in waw consecutive perfect forms in biblical Hebrew, which remains incomplete in several areas. 1 Distinctive stress position occurs only in first person singular ( lcs) and second person masculine singular (2ms) forms. That it does not occur in first person plural forms is perhaps due to ...