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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965393003321

Titolo

Perspectives on Arabic linguistics IV : papers from the Fourth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics / / editors, Ellen Broselow, Mushira Eid, John McCarthy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1992

ISBN

1-283-31323-5

9786613313232

90-272-7749-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 pages)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 85

Altri autori (Persone)

BroselowEllen

EidMushira

McCarthyJohn

Disciplina

492.75

Soggetti

Arabic language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of contents --  Foreword --  Introduction --  I. Arabic dialects: implications for general linguistics --  Parametric variation in arabic dialect phonology --  Closed syllable shortening and morphological levels --  Extra-arabic affiliations of K-Yemeni --  Shifting boundaries: the effect of modern standard arabic on dialect convergence in Baghdad --  Pronouns, questions and agreement --  Egyptian Arabic Auxiliaries and the category of Aux --  II. Sociolinguistic perspectives synchronic variation in cairene arabic: the case of palatalization --  A sociolinguistic description of (u:) in Korba Arabic: defining linguistic variables in contact situations and relic areas --  Code-mixing in Arabic-English bilinguals --  III. Historical perspectives --  Variable agreement and non-human plurals in classical and Modern standard Arabic --  Morphosyntactic analysis in Al-Jumal Fii l-nahw: discourse structure and metalanguage --  Index of Subjects.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume includes papers on the study of Arabic dialects and their implications for general linguistics (Section I), as well of papers of a more general nature (Sections II and III). Because the Arabic dialects are



similar in many ways, a study of their differences can help isolate precisely the range of permissible interlinguistic variation (i.e. the "parameters" of universal grammar). A number of papers in Section I focus on the contribution of dialect studies to a theory of cross dialectal and cross linguistic variation; others focus on individual dialects, thus providing data and analyses