{"product_id":"9789004690936","title":"Event Building, Selection, and Non-Canonical Case in Tunisian Arabic : fii-Insertion (Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Tunisians travel east, Levantine speakers are often struck by expressions like \"eating in their food\" or \"whistling in a little tune.\" What accounts for this distinctive usage? This book explains why Tunisian Arabic requires the preposition fii ('in') before a direct object in specific contexts. Examining three key constructions, it shows how fii-marking arises from the interaction between case licensing and event structure. It further argues that fii serves as a structural repair strategy when accusative case cannot be licensed canonically, offering a clear and insightful syntactic account of a remarkable feature of Tunisian Arabic grammar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50285605880035,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":249.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/ja\/products\/9789004690936","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}