03933nam 2200661Ia 450 991046375850332120200520144314.01-58901-891-5(CKB)3170000000046075(EBL)906977(OCoLC)793166763(SSID)ssj0000581993(PQKBManifestationID)11966012(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000581993(PQKBWorkID)10556500(PQKB)10077824(MiAaPQ)EBC906977(MdBmJHUP)muse17393(Au-PeEL)EBL906977(CaPaEBR)ebr10556515(EXLCZ)99317000000004607520110829d2012 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrArabic languages and linguistics[electronic resource] /Reem Bassiouney and E. Graham Katz, editorsWashington DC Georgetown University Pressc20121 online resource (247 p.)Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-58901-885-0 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Transliteration Conventions; Introduction; PART I: THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; 1. Negation in Moroccan Arabic: Scope and Focus; 2. On the Syntax and Semantics of Arabic Universal Quantification; 3. Statistical and Symbolic Paradigms in Arabic Computational Linguistics; 4. Raising in Standard Arabic: Backward, Forward, and None; 5. Construct State Nominals as Semantic Predicates; 6. On Licensing Wh-Scope: Wh-Questions in Egyptian Arabic Revisited7. The Notion of "Complete" and "Incomplete" Verbs in Early Arabic Grammatical Theory: Kāna and Its Sisters PART II: SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; 8. Women and Politeness on Egyptian Talk Shows; 9. Bonjour, ça va? Labas 'ale-ik? French and Arabic in Casablanca; 10. Nominalization in Arabic Discourse: A Genre Analysis Perspective; 11. The Elusiveness of Luġa Wustā-or, attempting to Catch Its "True Nature"; 12. Mexicans Speaking in Dârija (Moroccan Arabic): Media, Urbanization, and Language Changes in Morocco13. Critical Languages and Critical Thinking: Reframing Academic Arabic Programs 14. Ideology and the Standardization of Arabic; 15. The Ditransitive Dative Divide in Arabic: Grammaticality Assessments and ActualityArabic, 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 ArabicGeorgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series (2004)Arabic languageDiscourse analysisArabic languageRhetoricArabic languageUsageArabic languageVariationElectronic books.Arabic languageDiscourse analysis.Arabic languageRhetoric.Arabic languageUsage.Arabic languageVariation.492.701/41Bassiouney Reem1973-861600Katz E. Graham861601MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463758503321Arabic languages and linguistics1922708UNINA