Title: Information structure in spoken Arabic /
Authors: Owens, Jonathan.; Elgibali, Alaa.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Pragmatiek.; Arabic language Spoken Arabic.; Arabic language Discourse analysis.; Pragmatics.; Code switching (Linguistics); Arabisch.; Codewisseling.
Contents: 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.