Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII

Author: Stuart Davis

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2016-07-26

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9027267014

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The study of Arabic dialects has been an important and rich area of research over the past thirty-five years or so, with significant implications for modern linguistic analysis. The current volume builds on this tradition with ten scholarly contributions that provide novel data and analyses in multiple areas of Arabic linguistics: Syntax and its interfaces; regional and sociolinguistic variation; and first language acquisition. The linguistic facts in the volume are drawn from the various Arabic dialects spoken in North Africa, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, and Standard Arabic, and the analyses proposed reflect current approaches in linguistic theory. The volume, therefore, should be of interest to formal linguists, sociolinguists, historical linguists, dialectologists, as well as researchers on first language acquisition. It is our hope that the papers in this volume will spur more interest in and research on further aspects of Arabic linguistics.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI

Author: Reem Khamis-Dakwar

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2014-10-15

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9027269688

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This volume provides a unique collection of studies representing diversity and innovation in Arabic linguistics. The volume includes several groundbreaking papers authored by leaders in the field organized around key aspects of Arabic morphosyntax, semantics, phonology, and sociolinguistics, as well as language acquisition and neurolinguistics. Balancing depth and width of coverage, the volume integrates a variety of papers associated with inherent dialectal and diglossic variation, innovative questions, data, and approaches, as well as innovative reexaminations of existing theoretical frameworks, making a meaningful contribution to the understanding of Arabic linguistic structure and human language representation/processing throughout all papers. The volume is intended to highlight the potential contribution of Arabic linguistics and to endorse further contributions to the sparse knowledge of language representation and processing in Arabic to further develop our understanding of innate linguistic knowledge. It draws special attention to the potential contribution of studies of diversity in Arabic dialects and between the two language varieties of Arabic, for the broader study of human language.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics II
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics II

Author: Mushira Eid

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 9027235708

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The papers in this volume approach the study of Arabic, its structure and use, from different linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. The book is divided into three sections: Section I Morphological and Phonological Perspectives; Section II Semantic Perspectives; Section III Sociolinguistic Perspectives.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XVII-XVIII
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XVII-XVIII

Author: Mohammad T. Alhawary

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9789027247810

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The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics, held in 2003 (Alexandria) and 2004 (Oklahoma). They tackle a broad range of issues in current linguistic research, particularly in the areas of phonology, morphology/lexicon, sociolinguistics, and L1 and L2 acquisition. They are distinguished for the depth of coverage and the types of data considered.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI

Author: Amel Khalfaoui

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9027262446

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This volume brings together ten peer-reviewed articles on Arabic linguistics. The articles are distributed over three parts: phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics and pragmatics, and language acquisition. Including data from North African, Levantine, and Gulf varieties of Arabic, as well as Arabic varieties spoken in diaspora, these articles address issues that range from phonetic neutralization and diminutive formation to diglossia, dialect contact, and language acquisition in heritage speakers. The book is valuable reading for linguists in general and for those working on descriptive and theoretical aspects of Arabic linguistics in particular.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics

Author: Bernard Comrie

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1991-08-02

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9027277893

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This is the third in a continuing series of papers presented at the annual meetings of the Arabic Linguistic Society whose primary purpose is to provide a forum for the study of Arabic within current approaches in linguistics. The volume includes a section on Arabic in relation to other languages, with papers ranging from the importance of Arabic to general linguistic theory, and guttural phonology to Arabic loanwords in Acehnese, verbless sentences in Arabic and Hebrew, and a contrastive study of middle and unaccusative constructions in Arabic and English. In the second section of the book, “Grammatical perspectives on Arabic”, topics ranging from causatives in Moroccan Arabic and epenthesis in Makkan Arabic to a computer analysis of Modern Standard Arabic morphology are discussed. The third section, “Socio- and psycholinguistic perspectives”, includes papers on women, men, and linguistic variation, code switching and linguistic accommodation, and agrammatism.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV-XXV
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV-XXV

Author: Samira Farwaneh

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 902727066X

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This volume provides important contributions to Arabic linguistics and Linguistic research in general by presenting new empirical facts and innovative theoretical analyses. It consists of two major parts: the first contains four papers on phonology and morphology, most of which deal with phonology/morphology interface, while the second part includes five papers on syntax. The papers featured represent some of the current trends in Arabic Linguistics especially in the areas of Phonology and Syntax. Some of the articles are contributions to ongoing debates on the nature and properties of specific aspects of Arabic, such as: gemination and stress assignment in Phonology, and negation in Syntax. Other papers introduce new topics such as: analyzing intonational patterns in Arabic Phonology, investigating the source of the morpheme /-in/ in the less studied varieties of Central Asian Arabic in Morphology, and analyzing “sluicing” in Syntax.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics

Author: Mushira Eid

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1995-06-22

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9027276463

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This volume includes ten papers selected from the Seventh Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. For the first time in this series, three of the papers represent experimental studies dealing with Arabic syllable and morphological structure. Four are focused on aspects of agreement in Arabic. The remaining three deal with certain problems in Arabic phonology and discourse.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics

Author: Mushira Eid

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9027278334

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This volume provides a general perspective on aspects of Arabic in relation to various areas of linguistics. To the general linguist, it is a source of information and data on Arabic analyzed within current models of analysis; to the Arabic linguist, it provides current analyses of both familiar and new data. The book is divided into three sections, which contain exciting papers on Arabic syntax (mostly within Government-Binding theory), textual analysis, and psycholinguistics. The volume opens with an overview of the current state of Arabic linguistics by the Editor and a major presentation by Charles Ferguson.