@ARTICLE{Kalach_Najla_A_2023, author={Kalach, Najla and Al-Hamad, Muntasir Fayez}, volume={vol. 60}, journal={Folia Orientalia}, pages={207-225}, howpublished={online}, year={2023}, publisher={Commission of Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences – Kraków Branch}, abstract={This article deals with the study of Gulf Arabic. By the means of the Qatari Arabic Corpus elaborated by Elmahdy et al. (2014), the aim of this study is investigating a number of selected verbal prefixes and the active participle gāʕid ‘sitting’ as a progressive aspect marker in Qatari Arabic, a relatively under researched variety in the field of Arabic Dialectology. A descriptive and quantitative approach in the data collection was adopted and the validation process, throughout the whole corpus which consists of 15 hours of speech flow, provided over 600 manually-selected tokens of verbal prefixes and active participles as progressive aspect markers whose main forms and functions were discussed in the paper.}, type={Article}, title={A Corpus-Based Analysis of Verbal Prefixes and the Progressive Aspect Marker gāʕid ‘sitting’ in Qatari Arabic}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/130058/2023-FORI-08.pdf}, doi={10.24425/for.2023.148424}, keywords={Gulf Arabic, Qatari Arabic, Arabic dialectology, progressive aspect marker, verbal prefixes, Qatari Arabic Corpus}, }