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Mixed styles in spoken Arabic in Egypt : somewhere between order and chaos /

This volume deals with the linguistic behaviour of Egyptian academics in a specific setting: the panel presentation - assumed to represent a discourse genre, to which speakers will respond with some kind of similar stylistic norm, reflected in linguistic choices among variants of a feature. The feat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mejdell, Gunvor
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Colección:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 48.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Contents
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER ONE ARABIC AND THE ISSUE OF STANDARD LANGUAGE
  • Arabic and the 8216;diglossic continuum8217;
  • Standard language/variety8212;concepts of status, norms, and functions
  • The emergence of fu351;h257; as a modern 8216;standard8217;
  • Selection and codification
  • Elaboration of function
  • Acceptance by the community
  • Some problems of codification and norm
  • Trends in other 8216;diglossic8217; communities
  • A 8216;standard8217; with restricted 8216;polyfunctionality8217;
  • CHAPTER TWO INTERMEDIATE FORMS8212;8216;MIXED STYLES8217;
  • De2;ning 8216;levels8217; of the continuum
  • Empirical studies on the linguistic properties of 8216;mixed style8217;
  • The 8216;Educated Spoken Arabic8217; of Mitchell and the Leeds project
  • A quantitative approach: Schulz 1981
  • Badawi8217;s continuum-cum-levels
  • Features which characterize '257;mmiyyat al-mutaqqaf299;n
  • The lexical basis of variation8212;8216;the lexical hypothesis8217;
  • Notes on the analytical status of 8216;hybrids8217;
  • The LS
  • Restrictions/constraints on mixing
  • Word-internal mixing8212;the asymmetry of the varieties
  • Syntactic restrictions/constraints
  • The scope of my investigation
  • Data and speakers
  • Notions of genre, register, and style
  • Selection of items for analysis
  • System of transcription and presentation of data
  • Phoneme inventory and symbols for transcription
  • Notes on system of transcription
  • Word boundaries and morphological information
  • Notes on grammatical notation
  • Abbreviations of grammatical terms
  • CHAPTER THREE VARIANTS OF COMPLEMENTIZERS WITH THE EMBEDDING OF NOUN CLAUSES (8220;THAT8221;-CLAUSES)
  • Forms and distribution of the SA complementizers
  • dam299;r al-353;a'n, or the pronominal 8216;dummy8217;
  • Forms and distribution of EA complementizer 8;inn
  • Obligatory vs. optional use of inn- as complementizer for embedded object clauses
  • The interpretation of 'innu
  • Formal and functional categories of COMP
  • COMP in the current data
  • COMP in AUC1 (total 153 lines)
  • COMP in AUC2 (total 258 lines)
  • COMP in AUC3 (total 224 lines)
  • COMP in AUC4 (total 165 lines)
  • COMP in NA1 (total 155 lines)
  • COMP in NA2 (total 276 lines)
  • COMP in NA3 (total 86 lines)
  • Discussion and summary of COMP
  • Distribution of variants
  • Syntactic functions of COMP clauses
  • The expression of factuality vs. non-factuality in COMP clauses
  • Constraints on asyndetic verb complement clauses
  • Constraints of linguistic environment
  • The status of 8;innu
  • CHAPTER FOUR DEMONSTRATIVES
  • Demonstratives in Standard Arabic
  • The basic sets in SA
  • Pronominal and attributive functions
  • Deictic functions and anaphora
  • Demonstratives in Egyptian Arabic
  • The basic sets of EA
  • Pronominal and attributive functions
  • SA and EA chart
  • DEM in the current data
  • DEM in AUC1
  • DEM in AUC2
  • DEM in AUC3
  • DEM in AUC4
  • DEM in NA1
  • DEM in NA2
  • DEM in NA 3
  • Discussion and summary of DEM
  • Deixis and anaphoric reference
  • Patterns of distribution of SA and EA variants
  • Cooccurrence patterns
  • CHAPTER FIVE THE EXPRESSION OF NEGATION
  • Negation in SA
  • l257;
  • lam
  • lan
  • m257;
  • laysa
  • Neg.