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9781589018853

Arabic Language and Linguistics

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  • ISBN13:

    9781589018853

  • ISBN10:

    1589018850

  • Edition: Bilingual
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-04-30
  • Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr
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Summary

Arabic, one of the official languages of the United Nations, is spoken by more than half a billion people around the world and is of increasing importance in today's political and economic spheres. The study of the Arabic language has a long and rich history: earliest grammatical accounts date from the 8th century and include full syntactic, morphological, and phonological analyses of the vernaculars and of Classical Arabic. In recent years the academic study of Arabic has become increasingly sophisticated and broad. This state-of-the-art volume presents the most recent research in Arabic linguistics from a theoretical point of view, including computational linguistics, syntax, semantics, and historical linguistics. It also covers sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and discourse analysis by looking at issues such as gender, urbanization, and language ideology. Underlying themes include the changing and evolving attitudes of speakers of Arabic and theoretical approaches to linguistic variation in the Middle East.

Author Biography

Reem Bassiouney is an associate professor of Arabic linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of Arabic Sociolinguistics: Topics in Diglossia, Gender, Identity, and Politics. E. Graham Katz is an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University.

Table of Contents

Illustrationsp. vii
Prefacep. viii
Transliteration Conventionsp. x
Introductionp. xi
Theoretical and Computational Linguistics
Negation in Moroccan Arabic: Scope and Focusp. 3
On the Syntax and Semantics of Arabic Universal Quantificationp. 17
Statistical and Symbolic Paradigms in Arabic Computational Linguisticsp. 35
Raising in Standard Arabic: Backward, Forward, and Nonep. 61
Construct State Nominals as Semantic Predicatesp. 79
On Licensing Wh-Scope: Wh-Questions in Egyptian Arabic Revisitedp. 99
The Notion of "Complete" and "Incomplete" Verbs in Early Arabic Grammatical Theory: Kana and Its Sistersp. 115
Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics
Women and Politeness on Egyptian Talk Showsp. 129
Bonjour, ça va? Labas cale-ik? French and Arabic in Casablancap. 137
Nominalization in Arabic Discourse: A Genre Analysis Perspectivep. 145
The Elusiveness of Luga Wusta-or, Attempting to Catch Its "True Nature"p. 157
Mexicans Speaking in Dârija (Moroccan Arabic): Media, Urbanization, and Language Changes in Moroccop. 169
Critical Languages and Critical Thinking: Reframing Academic Arabic Programsp. 189
Ideology and the Standardization of Arabicp. 201
The Ditransitive Dative Divide in Arabic: Grammaticality Assessments and Actualityp. 215
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