title: A Grammar of Classical Arabic: Third Revised Edition
author: Professor Wolfdietrich Fischer
description: "A solid reference work for both introductory and advanced students of Arabic. Written in a systematic and clear way." -- <i>Bassam Frangieh, Yale University</i>
zlib_text: © koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2016 | doi: 10.1163/18776930-00801005
  Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages
  and Linguistics 8 (2016) 101–135
  brill.com/aall
  The Pronominal Copula in Arabic
  Lina Choueiri
  American University of Beirut
  lc01@aub.edu.lb
  Abstract
  The literature on the syntax of verbless predication in Arabic is rich, but little attention
  has been given to the ‘pronominal copula’, pron. Its main characteristics are well-
  known: it only takes the form of third person independent pronouns; it is limited to
  equational sentences, in which the predicate is a definite noun phrase; and it must
  always occur between the subject and the predicate nominal. A standard view (e.g.
  Eid 1991, and more recently, Ouhalla 2013) has been to assume that pron, like its
  verbal counterpart kn, realizes subject agreement in t. In this paper, I examine the
  syntax of pron and review its characteristics in contrast with those of kn. I show
  that the complex distribution of pron challenges the standard 