Dina El Zarka
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dina El Zarka is involved.
Articles
2026 Number agreement in South Iranian Arabic: Somewhere between Arabic and Farsi Arabic Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper examines agreement with plural controllers in Gulf Arabic dialects spoken in South Iran through two complementary studies. Results show that the agreement system of Arabic is gradually converging toward the Persian system. However, this shift varies by the sociolinguistic context… read more
2013 Pragmatic functions and the biological codes: Evidence from the prosody of sentence topic and focus in Egyptian Arabic declaratives Prosody and Iconicity, Hancil, Sylvie and Daniel Hirst (eds.), pp. 109–126 | Article
I argue in this paper that the intonational marking of information structure is mainly based on iconic principles relying on the effects of the frequency code (Ohala 1983; Gussenhoven 2002) and the effort code (Gussenhoven 2002). It will be shown that different information structures can be… read more
2011 Leading, linking, and closing tones and tunes in Egyptian Arabic – what a simple intonation system tells us about the nature of intonation Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics, Broselow, Ellen and Hamid Ouali (eds.), pp. 57–74 | Article
This paper offers an analysis of the basic structure of the intonation system of Egyptian Arabic within an autosegmental framework. Contrary to mainstream work, it is assumed here that the primary units of intonation are not abstract targets but meaningful configurations. Intonation is thought of… read more