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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968945803321

Titolo

Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XV : papers from the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Salt Lake City 2001 / / edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson, Samira Farwaneh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : Benjamins, c2003

ISBN

9786612104640

9781282104648

1282104640

9789027289902

9027289905

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 214 pages)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 247

Altri autori (Persone)

ParkinsonDilworth B. <1951->

FarwanehSamira

Disciplina

492.7

Soggetti

Arabic language

Semitic languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Internat. conference proceedings.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS XV -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL NOTE -- INTRODUCTION -- I. SOCIOLINGUISTICS -- DISCOURSE PARTICLES REVISITED. THE CASE OF WALLAHI IN EGYPTIAN ARABIC -- THEORIES OF CODE SWITCHING IN THE LIGHT OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM EGYPT -- TRANSLATING ARABIC SPEECH ACTION EXPRESSIONS -- RELATIVE CLAUSES IN SYRIAN ARABIC TWO RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS -- INTERPRETABILITY, FEATURE STRENGTH, AND IMPOVERISHED AGREEMENT IN ARABIC -- EVOLUTION OF MSA. THE CASE OF SOME COMPLEMENTARY PARTICLES -- NP-STRUCTURE TYPES IN SPOKEN AND WRITTEN MODERN STANDARD ARABIC (MSA) CORPORA -- COMPARING FREQUENCIES OF LEXICAL PRODUCTIONS IN ARABIC WORDS -- FUTURE VARIABILITY A CORPUS STUDY OF ARABIC FUTURE PARTICLES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume includes nine papers selected from the Fifteenth Annual



Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Four of the papers deal with the area of corpus linguistics (new for this series), including papers from both a computational and a variationist point of view. The other papers deal with Syntax, and with various aspects of Arabic Sociolinguistics.