Investigating Arabic : current parameters in analysis and learning / edited by Alaa Elgibali.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elgibali, Alaa.

Series:

Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 42.

Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; v. 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

Arabic language.

Applied linguistics.

Arabic language--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

xi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Summary:

This book represents a major contribution to the field of Arabic linguistics. It gives in depth treatments of the current issues in Arabic linguistics and makes excellent readings for graduate courses and for linguists at large.

Contents:

Part I Language Analysis

Chapter 1 Breaking the Rules without Wanting to: Hypercorrection in Middle Arabic Texts / Kees Versteegh 3

Chapter 2 Acquisition of Arabic as a Native Language: Implications for Linguistic Analysis / Alaa Elgibali 19

Chapter 3 A Case for an Inter-Arabic Grammar / Ali Farghaly 29

Chapter 4 Polysemy in Arabic Dialects / Zeinab Ibrahim 51

Chapter 5 Weak Verbs in Arabic / Abdellah Chekayri 65

Chapter 6 Towards a Grammar of Spoken MSA: A Corpus-based Approach / Sameh Al-Ansary 85

Part II Language Learning

Chapter 7 The Grammatical Tradition and Arabic Language Teaching: A View from Here / Jonathan Owens 103

Chapter 8 Teaching Arabic Dialectology in European Universities: Why, What, and How / Soha Abboud-Haggar 117

Chapter 9 An Error Analysis of Malay Students' Written Arabic / Adil Elsheikh Abdalla 133

Chapter 10 Verbal Report Data and L2 Reading Comprehension: The Case of the Think Aloud Technique / Mahmoud Abdalla 157

Chapter 11 Contrastive Analysis of the Segments of French and Arabic / Daniel L. Newman 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-220) and index.

ISBN:

9004137920

OCLC:

54774766