Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XXI : papers from the twenty-first annual symposium on Arabic linguistics, Provo, Utah, March 2007
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Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XXI : papers from the twenty-first annual symposium on Arabic linguistics, Provo, Utah, March 2007
(Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 301)
J. Benjamins, c2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This volume contains a selection of reviewed and revised papers from the twenty-first Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, which was held on March 2-3, 2007, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The papers in this volume deal with a variety of topics in Arabic linguistics with a notable number of them emphasizing pragmatic aspects. The papers here included place a high value on the presentation of authentic data and explore different approaches in their analysis.
Table of Contents
- 1. Editorial note
- 2. Indroduction (by Parkinson, Dilworth B.)
- 3. Orthographic Unicode Variations in Arabic: A case study of character occurrences in news corpora (by Saadi, Zina)
- 4. Toward an LFG account of agreement: Mismatches of numerals within Arabic NPs (by Elsaadany, Kamel A.)
- 5. A text-pragmatic approach to moot questions in Arabic (by Mahmoud, Reda A.H.)
- 6. The pragmatics of denial: An information structure analysis of so-called "emphatic negation" in Egyptian Arabic (by Mughazy, Mustafa A.)
- 7. Yagni: What it (really) means (by Owens, Jonathan)
- 8. Citations in Arabic legal opinion: giftaag versus qadaag (by Fakhri, Ahmed)
- 9. Language policy and factors influencing it in some Middle Eastern countries and Morocco (by Zouhir, Abderrahmane)
- 10. The perception of Arab-accented speech by American native speakers and non-native speakers from East and Southeast Asia (by Said, Selim Ben)
- 11. Linguistic losses in the translation of Arabic literary texts (by Al-Masri, Hanada)
- 12. Index of subjects
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