Abstract
In Libyan Arabic, the preposition fi ‘in’ has developed into a marker of continuous or habitual aspect. While structurally remaining a preposition which marks the objects of the non-tensed forms of dynamic transitive verbs, it serves to attribute an aspectual interpretation to the clause as a whole. We argue that this aspectual object marking is naturally modeled by an inside-out functional designator, and provide arguments that the aspectual value contributed by aspectual fi is best treated as an f-structure feature.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Joint 2016 Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional Grammar |
| Editors | Doug Arnold, Miriam Butt, Berthold Crysmann, Tracy Holloway King, Stefan Müller |
| Place of Publication | Stanford, CA |
| Publisher | CSLI Publications |
| Pages | 125-139 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 1535-1793 |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Dec 2016 |