Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics

Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics

Volume XV: Salt Lake City 2001

Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson and Samira Farwaneh
Brigham Young University / University of Arizona
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.
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Table of Contents

Editorial Note
vii
Introduction
Dilworth B. Parkinson
ix
I. Sociolinguistics
Discourse Particles Revisited: The Case of Wallahi in Egyptian Arabic
Mustafa A. Mughazy
3–17
Theories of Code Switching in the Light of Empirical Evidence from Egypt
Reem Bassiouney
19–39
Translating Arabic Speech Act Expressions
Rudolf Reinelt
41–50
II. Syntax
Relative Clauses in Syrian Arabic: Two Reconstruction Problems
James Darrow
53–83
Interpretability, Feature Strength, and Impoverished Agreement in Arabic
Mark S. LeTourneau
85–131
III. Corpus Linguistics
Evolution of MSA, the Case of Some Complementary Particles
Mark van Mol
135–147
NP-Structure Types in Spoken and Written Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Corpora
Sameh Al-Ansary
149–180
Comparing Frequencies of Lexical Productions in Arabic Words
Stephen S. Taylor
181–189
Future Variability: A Corpus Study of Arabic Future Particles
Dilworth B. Parkinson
191–211
Index of Subjects
213–214

Quotes

“[...] 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).

Subjects

Benjamins Subject classification

BIC Subject

CFK: Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  91641663
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