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Title Arabic language and linguistics / Reem Bassiouney and E. Graham Katz, editors.

Imprint Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2012.
Descript xiv, 232 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics Series
Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series (2004)
Contents Theoretical and computational linguistics. Negation in Moroccan Arabic : scope and focus / Nizha Chatar-Moumni -- On the syntax and semantics of Arabic universal quantification / Kamel A. Elsaadany, Salwa Muhammed Shams -- Statistical and symbolic paradigms in Arabic computational linguistics / Ali Farghaly -- Raising in standard Arabic : backward, forward, and none / Youssef A. Haddad -- Construct state nominals as semantic predicates / Sarah Ouwayda -- On licensing wh-scope : wh-questions in Egyptian Arabic revisited / Usama Soltan -- Notion of "complete" and "incomplete" verbs in early Arabic grammatical theory : Kāna and its sisters / Hana Zabarah -- Sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. Women and politeness on Egyptian talk shows / Reem Bassiouney -- Bonjour, ça va? Labas ʻale-ik? French and Arabic in Casablanca / Elena Canna -- Nominalization in Arabic discourse : a genre analysis perspective / Ahmed Fakhri -- Elusiveness of Luġa Wuṣtā : or, attempting to catch its "true nature" / Gunvor Mejdell -- Mexicans speaking in Dârija (Moroccan Arabic) : media, urbanization, and language changes in Morocco / Catherine Miller -- Critical languages and critical thinking : reframing academic Arabic programs / Karin Christina Ryding -- Ideology and the standardization of Arabic / Yasir Suleiman -- Ditransitive dative divide in Arabic : grammaticality assessments and actuality / David Wilmsen.
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.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Arabic language -- Discourse analysis.
Arabic language -- Variation.
Arabic language -- Rhetoric.
Arabic language -- Usage.
Alt Author Bassiouney, Reem, 1973-
Katz, E. Graham.
ISBN 9781589018853 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1589018850 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LC CARD # 2011036103