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Information structure in spoken Arabic /

This book explores speakersʹ intentions, and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ, in spoken Arabic -- which is different in many essential respects from literary Arabic. Based on new empirical findings from across the Arabic world this book elucidates the many ways in which context an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Owens, Jonathan, Elgibali, Alaa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Colección:Routledge Arabic linguistics series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The once and future study of information structure in Arabic / Jonathan Owens
  • Explaining Ø 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.