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:1 online resource (xvii, 264 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780203875834, 0203875834, 9781135968359, 1135968357, 9781135968397, 113596839X
DOI:10.4324/9780203875834
oclc:on1086506090
LC Classification:PJ6161
Dewey Decimal:492.70141

Introduction : the once and future study of information structure in Arabic : from Jurjani to Grice / Jonathan Owens -- Explaining Ø and overt subjects in spoken Arabic / Jonathan Owens, Bill 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 : form and function / Malcolm Edwards -- The information structure of existential sentences in Egyptian Arabic -- Mustafa Mughazy -- The pragmatics of information structure in Arabic : colloquial tautological expressions as a paradigm example / Mohammed Farghal -- From complementizer to discourse marker: the functions of??nno in Lebanese Arabic / Marie Aimée Germanos -- The (absence of) prosodic reflexes of given/new information status in Egyptian Erabic / Sam Hellmuth -- Moroccan Arabic-French codeswitching and information structure / Karima Ziamari -- Conversation markers in Arabic-Hausa codeswitching : saliency and language hierarchies / Jonathan Owens, Jidda Hassan -- Understatement, euphemism, and circumlocution in Egyptian Arabic : cooperation in conversational dissembling -- Da…

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