Arabic Language and Linguistics.
Title:
Arabic Language and Linguistics.
Author:
Bassiouney, Reem.
ISBN:
9781589018914
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (247 pages)
Series:
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
Contents:
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 Revisited -- 7. 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 Morocco -- 13. 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 Actuality.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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