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Perspectives on Arabic linguistics IV : papers from the Fourth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
- Author / Creator
- Conferences
- Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (4th : 1990 : Detroit, Michigan)
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- Online
- Summary
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This volume includes papers on the study of Arabic dialects and their implications for general linguistics (Section I), as well of papers of a more general nature (Sections II and III). Because the...
This volume includes papers on the study of Arabic dialects and their implications for general linguistics (Section I), as well of papers of a more general nature (Sections II and III). Because the Arabic dialects are similar in many ways, a study of their differences can help isolate precisely the range of permissible interlinguistic variation (i.e. the "parameters" of universal grammar). A number of papers in Section I focus on the contribution of dialect studies to a theory of cross dialectal and cross linguistic variation; others focus on individual dialects, thus providing data and analyses
Details
- Creator
- editors, Ellen Broselow, Mushira Eid, John McCarthy
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (290 pages)
- ISBNs
- 1283313235, 9786613313232, 9027277494, 9027235821
- OCLC
- ocn759101380
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I. Arabic dialects: implications for general linguistics -- Parametric variation in arabic dialect phonology -- Closed syllable shortening and morphological levels -- Extra-arabic affiliations of K-Yemeni -- Shifting boundaries: the effect of modern standard arabic on dialect convergence in Baghdad -- Pronouns, questions and agreement -- Egyptian Arabic Auxiliaries and the category of Aux -- II. Sociolinguistic perspectives synchronic variation in cairene arabic: the case of palatalization -- A sociolinguistic description of (u:) in Korba Arabic: defining linguistic variables in contact situations and relic areas -- Code-mixing in Arabic-English bilinguals -- III. Historical perspectives -- Variable agreement and non-human plurals in classical and Modern standard Arabic -- Morphosyntactic analysis in Al-Jumal Fii l-nahw: discourse structure and metalanguage -- Index of Subjects