Arabic corpus linguistics / edited by Tony McEnery, Andrew Hardie and Nagwa Younis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McEnery, Tony, 1964- editor.

Hardie, Andrew, editor.

Younis, Nagwa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Research--Data processing.

Arabic language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This book demonstrates the advantage of a corpus based approach to Arabic, and presents an overview of current research on the Arabic language within corpus linguistics. Dealing not only with modern standard Arabic, the book also considers classical and colloquial forms.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Notes on Contributors

1 Introducing Arabic Corpus Linguistics

2 Under the Hood of arabiCorpus

3 Tunisian Arabic Corpus: Creating a Written Corpus of an ‘Unwritten’ Language

4 Accessible Corpus Annotation for Arabic

5 The Leeds Arabic Discourse Treebank: Guidelines for Annotating Discourse Connectives and Relations

6 Using the Web to Model Modern and Qurʾanic Arabic

7 Semantic Prosody as a Tool for Translating Prepositions in the Holy Qurʾan: A Corpus-Based Analysis

8 A Relational Approach to Modern Literary Arabic Conditional Clauses

9 Quantitative Approaches to Analysing come Constructions in Modern Standard Arabic

10 Approaching Text Typology through Cluster Analysis in Arabic

Appendix Arabic Transliteration Systems Used in This Book

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Nov 2020).

ISBN:

0-7486-7739-9

0-7486-7738-0

OCLC:

1306539336