--- title: "Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV–XXV, éd. Samira Farwaneh, Hamid Ouali, 2014 — Płonka 2015" description: "The supplied extract does not contain the review named in the title. 6 references." authors: ["Arkadiusz Płonka"] year: 2015 venue: "Folia Orientalia 52" source: "https://wydawnictwo.pan.pl/index.php/fo/article/view/7045" licence: "CC BY (journal licence per DOAJ; Folia Orientalia)" licence_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" summary_licence: "Elamur Cosmic License" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/plonka-2026-perspectives-arabic-linguistics-xxivxxv-ed/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/plonka-2026-perspectives-arabic-linguistics-xxivxxv-ed/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/) / [2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2015/page/3/) / Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV–XXV, éd. Samira Farwaneh, Hamid Ouali, 2014, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company # Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV–XXV, éd. Samira Farwaneh, Hamid Ouali, 2014, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company **Authors:** Arkadiusz Płonka · **Year:** 2015 · **Venue:** Folia Orientalia 52 · **Licence:** [CC BY (journal licence per DOAJ; Folia Orientalia)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) **Links:** [Publisher's page](https://wydawnictwo.pan.pl/index.php/fo/article/view/7045) · [PDF](https://wydawnictwo.pan.pl/index.php/fo/article/download/7045/5865) · [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/W7215464688) **Citations:** 0 citations (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14) ## Summary The supplied extract does not contain the review named in the title. It holds only the closing lines of a different, preceding review in the same issue, which discusses a corpus-based description of the Tigre spoken in Mansa‘, in the Eritrean highlands, by an author named Elias. No content about *Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV–XXV* (eds. Samira Farwaneh and Hamid Ouali) is present, so its problem, methods and results cannot be summarized here. From the fragment, the reviewer singles out grammatical traits that set Mansa‘ apart from the Lowland Tigre varieties. One is a genitive particle that the Lowland varieties lack. Another is a periphrastic future built from a copula, a preposition and a jussive verb. The reviewer's overall judgement is that the new corpus considerably expands the published data on highland Tigre. The library entry for the Arabic linguistics volume should be redone from a complete copy of Płonka's text. ## Key points - The extract is only the ending of a review of Elias's work on Mansa‘ Tigre, not the review of the Arabic linguistics volume. - The genitive particle *nay* (p. 159 of the reviewed work) occurs in Mansa‘ but is absent from other Lowland Tigre varieties. - Futurity can be expressed with the copula (masc. *tu*, fem. *ta*) plus the preposition *əgəl* and a jussive verb. Example: *ʔəgəl nəmazzən tu*, glossed "we will weigh". - The reviewer credits a newly collected corpus with notably enlarging what is known of highland Eritrean Tigre. ## Interesting ideas - The review describes a variety by contrasting its features with neighbouring varieties, flagging what one dialect has that the others lack. - Future meaning arises from a multi-word construction (copula + preposition + jussive) rather than a single tense marker. - A grammar description grounded in freshly gathered corpus data is valued for widening the evidence base. ## For Mova How these ideas could serve Mova, our small open language model — its files, stages and tests: - **I1** (tree): The same contrastive inventory could document how each treebank's UD dialect differs from our target scheme, so conversion rules are written per difference rather than ad hoc. - **I2** (frames): English periphrastic futures such as "is going to" or "is to" could be recognized as one construction that sets the frame's time to future, instead of leaving it to individual words. - **I3** (learn): Evaluation sets could deliberately include under-represented text varieties, to check whether rules learned on mainstream data actually generalize. *Our summary of the paper, in our own words — not its text. The work belongs to its authors; read it at the links above.* Fields: [Linguistics & languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) Topics: [🐪 Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Cite Cite as: Arkadiusz Płonka. 2015. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV–XXV, éd. Samira Farwaneh, Hamid Ouali, 2014, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company. Folia Orientalia 52. The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. ```bibtex @inproceedings{plonka2015perspectives, title = {{Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV–XXV, éd. Samira Farwaneh, Hamid Ouali, 2014, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company}}, author = {Arkadiusz Płonka}, booktitle = {Folia Orientalia 52}, year = {2015}, url = {https://wydawnictwo.pan.pl/index.php/fo/article/view/7045} } ``` - [← previous On the Shaping of the Andalusi Arabic Lexicon: Semitic and Non-Semitic Borrowing, Phonetic Variation and Lexical Composition (NAḤT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/corriente-2026-shaping-andalusi-arabic-lexicon-semitic/) - [next → Sequences of Verbal Forms and Taxis in Biblical Hebrew](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lenzi-2015-sequences-verbal-forms-taxis-biblical/) - [↑ back to papers of 2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2015/page/3/) ## References 6 references, 0 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet. 1. The following references quoted in the review are proposed in addition to the exhaustive bibliography found in Elias’s Grammar. Morin, D. 2003, “Progressivité, simultanéité, antériorité en afar-saho”, Folia Orientalia, vol. XXXIX: 137–149. [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The+following+references+quoted+in+the+review+are+proposed+in+addition+to+the+exhaustive+bibliography+found+in+Elias%E2%80%99s+Grammar%2E+Morin%2C+D%2E+2003%2C+%E2%80%9CProgressivit%C3%A9%2C+simultan%C3%A9it%C3%A9%2C+ant%C3%A9riorit%C3%A9+en+afar%2Dsaho%E2%80%9D%2C) 2. Morin, D. 2008, “Territoriality in a linguistic perspective: The Beni-Amer case”. In: International Workshop “History and Language of the Tigre-speaking Peoples” (G. Lusini, ed.). Napoli: 147–157. [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Morin%2C+D%2E+2008%2C+%E2%80%9CTerritoriality+in+a+linguistic+perspective%3A+The+Beni%2DAmer+case%E2%80%9D%2E+In%3A+International+Workshop+%E2%80%9CHistory+and+Language+of+the+Tigre%2Dspeaking+Peoples%E2%80%9D+%28G%2E+Lusini%2C+ed%2E%29%2E+Napoli%3A+147%E2%80%93157%2E) 3. Morin, D. 2011, “Tigre”, The Semitic Languages – An international Handbook, S. Weniger (ed): 1142–1152. [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Morin%2C+D%2E+2011%2C+%E2%80%9CTigre%E2%80%9D%2C+The+Semitic+Languages+%E2%80%93+An+international+Handbook%2C+S%2E+Weniger+%28ed%29%3A+1142%E2%80%931152%2E) 4. Reinish, L. 1890, Die Saho-Sprache, II, Wörterbuch, Wien. [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Reinish%2C+L%2E+1890%2C+Die+Saho%2DSprache%2C+II%2C+W%C3%B6rterbuch%2C+Wien%2E) 5. Vergari, M. & Vergari R. 2003, A basic Saho-English-Italian Dictionary, Asmara. Arkadiusz PŁONKA, a review article of: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV–XXV, éd. [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Vergari%2C+M%2E+%26+Vergari+R%2E+2003%2C+A+basic+Saho%2DEnglish%2DItalian+Dictionary%2C+Asmara%2E+Arkadiusz+P%C5%81ONKA%2C+a+review+article+of%3A+Perspectives+on+Arabic+Linguistics+XXIV%E2%80%93XXV%2C+%C3%A9d%2E) 6. Samira Farwaneh, Hamid Ouali, 2014, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company. [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Samira+Farwaneh%2C+Hamid+Ouali%2C+2014%2C+Amsterdam%2F+Philadelphia%2C+John+Benjamins+Publishing+Company%2E)