Re: Masdars (was: Verbal noun, verbnoun, deverbal noun, gerund, infinitive)
| From: | Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 9, 2007, 20:30 |
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 13:31:21 -0500, Eldin Raigmore
<eldin_raigmore@...> wrote:
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>What are masdars?
>Which languages have them?
>How do they differ from other verbal nouns?
>Do any linguists refer to them by another term?
>Do they ever get called "infinitives" or "gerunds" or "gerundives" or "supines"?
>What's the "best" term for them?
>Who calls them masdars and who calls them something else?
It seems that masdar is Arabic for "source". Google found the following:
<http://64.233.169.104/search?
q=cache:1_5asbDJTt4J:www.soas.ac.uk/languagecentre/teachers/docs/arabic/
sulafa/masdar-en.pdf+masdar&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=59&gl=us>
Masdar seems to be a grammatical term used specifically for Arabic, sometimes
translated as "gerund".
Jeff