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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
Volume XV: Salt Lake City 2001
This volume includes nine papers selected from the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Four of the papers deal with the area of corpus linguistics (new for this series), including papers from both a computational and a variationist point of view. The other papers deal with Syntax, and with various aspects of Arabic Sociolinguistics.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 247] 2003. x, 214 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 14 November 2008
Published online on 14 November 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Editorial Note | pp. vii–viii
- IntroductionDilworth B. Parkinson | p. ix
- I. Sociolinguistics
- Discourse Particles Revisited: The Case of Wallahi in Egyptian ArabicMustafa A. Mughazy | pp. 3–17
- Theories of Code Switching in the Light of Empirical Evidence from EgyptReem Bassiouney | pp. 19–39
- Translating Arabic Speech Act ExpressionsRudolf Reinelt | pp. 41–50
- II. Syntax
- Relative Clauses in Syrian Arabic: Two Reconstruction ProblemsJames Darrow | pp. 53–83
- Interpretability, Feature Strength, and Impoverished Agreement in ArabicMark S. LeTourneau | pp. 85–131
- III. Corpus Linguistics
- Evolution of MSA, the Case of Some Complementary ParticlesMark van Mol | pp. 135–147
- NP-Structure Types in Spoken and Written Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) CorporaSameh Al-Ansary | pp. 149–180
- Comparing Frequencies of Lexical Productions in Arabic WordsStephen S. Taylor | pp. 181–189
- Future Variability: A Corpus Study of Arabic Future ParticlesDilworth B. Parkinson | pp. 191–211
- Index of Subjects | pp. 213–214
“[...] a useful and encouraging conspectus of the increasing diversity of current research in Arabic linguistics.”
Malcolm Edwards, in Bulletin of the School of Orienatl and African Studies, Vol. 68:3 (2005).
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