JORDANIAN ARABIC BETWEEN DIGLOSSIA AND BILINGUALISM: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- LIST OF VARIANT SYMBOLS -- PREFACE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Statement of purpose -- 1.2 Definitions -- 1.2.1 Broadening the definition -- 1.2.2 Variation in definitions -- 1.3 Theory: Linguistic variation -- 1.3.1 The structuralist view -- 1.3.2 The descriptive view -- 1.4 Arabic diglossia -- 1.4.1 Morpho-Syntax -- 1.4.2 Phonology -- 1.4.3 The phonological system of Jordanian Arabic: Main inventory -- 1.5 Lexicon -- 2. SCOPE, AIM, HYPOTHESIS, AND METHODOLOGY -- 2.1 Scope -- 2.2 Aim -- 2.3 Hypothesis -- 2.4 Methodology -- 2.5 Method of collecting data -- 3. LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SPEECH PATTERNS: DIGLOSSIA OR TRIGLOSSIA -- 3.1 Data analysis -- 3.2 Yarmouk University students -- 3.3 The dominance of Arabic -- 3.4 Language and dialect -- 3.5 Linguistic variables -- 3.6 Language currency -- 3.7 Distribution of dialects -- 3.8 Structural comparison of CA, MSA and KA -- 3.8.1 Vowel systems -- 3.8.2 Morphology -- 3.8.2.1 Modal and case endings -- 3.8.2.2 Numeral system -- 3.8.2.3 The loss of the dual -- 3.8.3 Syntactic comparison -- 3.8.3.1 Nominal versus verbal sentences -- 3.8.3.2 More on word order in Arabic -- 3.8.3.3 Verb deletion in the coordinate clause -- 3.9 A general overview of the language situation: Domains of use -- 3.9.1 Modern Standard Arabic -- 3.9.2 Domains of Classical Arabic -- 3.10 The language situation among Yarmouk students -- 3.11 The KA of Yarmouk students -- 3.11.1 The Madani variety -- 3.11.2 The Fallahi variety -- 3.11.3 The Bedouin variety -- 3.11.3.1 The current status of the Bedouin variety -- 3.11.4 An overall evaluation of Colloquial Arabic (KA) -- 3.12 The non-linguistic variables -- 3.12.1 Geographical area -- 3.12.2 Sex.

4. JORDANIAN ARABIC AND THE STATE OF BILINGUALISM -- 4.1 Theoretical preliminaries of bilingualism -- 4.2 Code-switching -- 4.3 Interference -- 4.3.1 Interlingual interference and language convergen -- 4.3.2 Structure as a determinant of interference -- 4.3.3 The non-linguistic causes of interference -- 4.3.4 Interference, language contact, and cultural contact -- 4.4 Integration -- 4.5 Language contact -- 4.6 Linguistic analysis -- 4.7 Contrastive analysis -- 4.8 Data analysis -- 4.8.1 Phonemic substitution -- 4.8.2 Consonants -- 4.8.2.1 Under-differentiation -- 4.8.2.2 Over-differentiation -- 4.8.3 Vowels -- 4.9 Orthographic interference -- 4.10 Vowel reduction -- 4.11 Diphthongs -- 4.12 Stress -- 4.13 Theoretical implications of linguistic borrowing -- 4.14 Language mixture -- 4.15 Reasons for lexical borrowing -- 4.16 The linguistic influence of English on Arabic: Historical background -- 4.17 Listing of English loanwords -- 4.18 The significance of lexical borrowing from English -- 4.19 The phonology of loanwords -- 4.20 Morphological treatment of loanwords -- 4.21 Loanshifts -- 1. Loanshift Extensions -- 2. Loanshift creation -- 3. Loan translation -- 4. Loan renditions -- 5. Loanblends -- 4.22 Influence from other languages -- 4.23 Classification of loanwords according to domains -- (A) The academic domain -- (B) university-specific and miscellaneous items -- 5. CONCLuSION -- 5.1 General implications -- 5.2 Research findings -- 5.3 Between diglossia and bilingualism -- FOOTNOTES -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES.