Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII

Author: Youssef A. Haddad

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2016-05-25

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9027266891

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This volume makes important contributions to the growing body of descriptive and theoretical studies in Arabic linguistics. It focuses on the rich linguistic work being done on Arabic dialects. The papers on individual dialects draw attention to the micro-variation that exists, emphasize that they do not comprise a uniform group, and reveal the implications of dialectal variation for linguistic theory. The chapters are distributed over three parts: phonetics and phonology, syntax, and sociolinguistics. They address first and second language acquisition, historical linguistics, phonetics, aspects of negation, light verb constructions, raising verbs, and sociolinguistic variation. The book is indispensable reading for those working in dialect description, the analysis of Arabic and the Semitic languages, and linguistic theory more generally.

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
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics

Author:

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2006-02-22

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held in Cambridge, UK, in 2002. They deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in varieties of Arabic.

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
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: 1993-04-01

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 9027277095

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The papers in the first section of this volume, 'Variation in Arabic', deal with a wide range of topics: the function of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) vs. dialect variation in political speeches, patterns of variation in concord in Cairene dialect, the extent to which Cairenes 'know' MSA, and the scope of emphaticization in different dialects. In the section on 'Phonological Perspectives' there are papers dealing with emphasis spread and with gemination/degemination/antigemination in Iraqi Arabic. The papers in the section on syntax, all focused on MSA and within a GB framework, discuss aspects of Arabic that are problematic for current hypotheses in linguistics, and also more traditional issues such as word order and verbal vs. nominal sentences. The last two papers represent a historical, comparative Semitic perspective: on the function of energic suffixes, and on the reconstruction of the early Arabic sounds represented by siin and šiin.

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.