REPETITION IN ARABIC DISCOURSE PARADIGMS, SYNTAGMS, AND THE ECOLOGY OF LANGUAGE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- Table of contents -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2: PARADIGMATIC STRUCTURE AND PARALLELISTIC DISCOURSE -- Paradigms and syntagms -- Paradigmatics and the Poetic Function of Language -- Approaches to parallelism -- Canonical parallelism and couplet structure -- The rhetoric of the series -- Parallelism and paradigmatics: general observations -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3: LEXICAL COUPLETS AND SEMANTIC PARADIGMS -- Arabic lexical couplets -- The semantics of the couplets -- Modified-modifier couplets -- Implicational couplets -- Hendiadic couplets -- Metaphorical expansion -- Synonym groups -- Near freezes -- Freezes -- Lexical couplets in diachronic perspective -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4: MORPHOLOGICAL REPETITION -- Morphological paradigms in discourse -- Roots and patterns -- Morphological parallelism: repetition of pattern -- Repetition of roots -- Cognate accusatives -- Other root repetitions -- Paradigmatic patterning and morphological accessibility -- Phrase-level repetition: figure or ground? -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5: PARAPHRASE AND RHETORICAL PRESENTATION -- Repetition of content: paraphrase -- The rhetoric of paraphrase -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6: PARALLELISM AND PARATAXIS -- Repetition of syntactic form -- Cohesion and persuasion -- Summary: paradigmatic patterning and Arabic arguments -- CHAPTER 7: REASONS FOR REPETITION: SOURCES OF CONSTRAINT ON ARABIC DISCOURSE -- Rhetorical constraints and syntactic constraints -- Presentation and proof -- Paradigmatic patterning and the structure of language -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.