Arabic languages and linguistics / Reem Bassiouney and E. Graham Katz, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bassiouney, Reem, 1973-

Katz, E. Graham.

Series:

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics.

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics Series

Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series (2004)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Discourse analysis.

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Rhetoric.

Arabic language--Usage.

Arabic language--Variation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington DC : Georgetown University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-58901-891-5

OCLC:

793166763