Arabic Language and Linguistics
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Arabic Language and Linguistics
Reem Bassiouney and E. Graham Katz, Editors
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. Reem Bassiouney is an associate professor of Arabic linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of Arabic Sociolinguistics: Topics in Diglossia, Gender, Identity, and Politics.
Reviews
"A highly readable book, innovative in both coverage and content. Sure to be read with interest and profit by scholars of Arabic language and linguistics."—Alison Mackey, professor and head of applied linguistics, Georgetown University "One of the challenges facing today's research in Arabic linguistics is to connect with recent developments in general linguistics and sociolinguistics. In this volume, Bassiouney and Katz have brought together an impressive collection of articles that take up this challenge."—Kees Versteegh, emeritus professor, University of Nijmegen "A challenging collection of papers providing a snapshot of advanced research in various areas of contemporary Arabic linguistics by scholars in the vanguard of the field."—Daniel Newman, professor of Arabic, University of Durham Table of Contents Preface Transliteration conventions Introduction Part I: Theoretical and Computational Linguistics 1. Negation in Moroccan Arabic: Scope and Focus Nizha Chatar-Moumni 2. On the Syntax and Semantics of Arabic Universal Quantification Kamel A. Elsaadany and Salwa Muhammed Shams 3. Statistical and Symbolic Paradigms in Arabic Computational Linguistics Ali Farghaly 4. Raising in Standard Arabic: Backward, Forward, and None Youssef A. Haddad 5. Construct State Nominals as Semantic Predicates Sarah Ouwayda 6. On Licensing Wh-Scope: Wh-Questions in Egyptian Arabic Revisited Usama Soltan 7. The Notion of 'Complete' and 'Incomplete' Verbs in Early Arabic Grammatical Theory: K na and Its Sisters Hana Zabarah Part II: Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics 8. Women and Politeness on Egyptian Talk Shows Reem Bassiouney 9. Bonjour, ça va ? Labas ale-ik? French and Arabic in Casablanca Elena Canna 10. Nominalization in Arabic Discourse: A Genre Analysis Perspective Ahmed Fakhri 11. The Elusiveness of Lu a Wust —or, Attempting to Catch Its "True Nature" Gunvor Mejdell 12. Mexicans Speaking in Dârija (Moroccan Arabic): Media, Urbanization, and Language Changes in Morocco Catherine Miller 13. Critical Languages and Critical Thinking: Reframing Academic Arabic Programs Karin Christina Ryding 14. Ideology and the Standardization of Arabic Yasir Suleiman 15. The Ditransitive Dative Divide in Arabic: Grammaticality Assessments and Actuality David Wilmsen Contributors Reem BassiouneyElena CannaNizha Chatar-MoumniKamel A. Elsaadany Ahmed FakhriAli FarghalyYoussef A. Haddad Gunvor MejdellCatherine MillerSarah OuwaydaKarin Christina RydingSalwa Muhammed ShamsUsama SoltanYasir SuleimanDavid WilmsenHana Zabarah |