Information structure in spoken Arabic
By: edited by Jonathan Owens and Alaa Elgibali.
Contributors: Owens, Jonathan.; Elgibali, Alaa.
Series: Routledge arabic linguistics series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780415778442; 9780203875834
Subjects: Arabic language -- Spoken Arabic; Arabic language -- Discourse analysis; Pragmatics; Code switching (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The once and future study of information structure in Arabic: from Jurjani to Grice / Jonathan Owens; title: Explaining ø and overt subjects in spoken Arabic / Jonathan Owens, Bill Young, Trent Rockwood, David Mehall, Robin Dodsworth; title: Word order and textual function in Gulf Arabic / Clive Holes; title: Information structure in the Najdi dialects / Bruce Ingham; title: Word order in Egyptian Arabic: form and function / Malcolm Edwards; title: The information structure of existential sentences in Egyptian Arabic; title: Mustafa Mughazy; title: The pragmatics of information structure in Arabic: colloquial tautological expressions as a paradigm example / Mohammed Farghal; title: From complementizer to discourse marker: the functions of ??nno in Lebanese Arabic / Marie Aimée Germanos; title: The (absence of) prosodic reflexes of given/new information status in Egyptian Erabic / Sam Hellmuth; title: Moroccan Arabic-French codeswitching and information structure / Karima Ziamari; title: Conversation markers in Arabic-Hausa codeswitching: saliency and language hierarchies / Jonathan Owens, Jidda Hassan; title: Understatement, euphemism, and circumlocution in Egyptian Arabic: cooperation in conversational dissembling; title: David Wilmsen.