| Description |
xvii, 264 p. : ill., maps. |
| Series |
Routledge Arabic linguistics series |
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Routledge Arabic linguistics series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The once and future study of information structure in Arabic / Jonathan Owens -- Explaining and overt subjects in spoken Arabic / Jonathan Owens, William Young, Trent Rockwood, David Mehall, Robin Dodsworth -- Word order and textual function in Gulf Arabic / Clive Holes -- Information structure in the Najdi dialects / Bruce Ingham -- Word order in Egyptian Arabic / Malcolm Edwards -- The information structure of existential sentences in Egyptian Arabic / Mustafa Mughazy -- The pragmatics of information structure in Arabic / Mohammed Farghal -- From complementizer to discourse marker / Marie Aimée Germanos -- The (absence of) prosodic reflexes of given/new information status in Egyptian Arabic / Sam Hellmuth -- Moroccan Arabic-French codeswitching and information structure / Karima Ziamari -- Conversation markers in Arabic-Hausa codeswitching / Jonathan Owens, Jidda Hassan -- Understatement, euphemism, and circumlocution in Egyptian Arabic / David Wilmsen. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Arabic language -- Spoken Arabic.
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Arabic language -- Discourse analysis.
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Pragmatics.
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Code switching (Linguistics)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Owens, Jonathan.
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Elgibali, Alaa.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780415778442 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0415778441 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780203875834 (electronic bk.) |
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0203875834 (electronic bk.) |
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