Information structure in spoken Arabic

by Elgibali, Alaa Owens, Jonathan

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Full title :Information structure in spoken Arabic / edited by Jonathan Owens and Alaa Elgibali.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

Description:xvii, 264 p. : : ill. ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415778442, 0415778441, 9780203875834, 0203875834
oclc:ocn320496229
LC Classification:PJ6161
Dewey Decimal:492.70141

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.

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