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At the turn of the twelfth century, the bishop and canons at Saint-Vincent, Macon constructed a new galilee, replete with paradisiacal imagery, as public entryway to their cathedral. It is argued here that this liminal space sheltered France's earliest Last Judgment portal. In c…

This dissertation examines excavated jewelry from the Iron Age II Southern Levant, especially the kingdoms of Israel and Judah between 850-580 BCE. This assemblage allows for the identification of social functions of the jewelry in order to give scholars greater insight into an …

The majority of scholars’ work on code-switching within the sociolinguistic approach of Arabic has been mainly concentrated on the interaction of the Standard variety with other regional dialects in indigenous communities (Albirini, 2011; Bassiouney, 2006; Saeed, 1997; Soliman, …

Codeswitching (CS) between Standard Arabic (SA) and Dialectal Arabic (DA) is a characteristic feature of Arabic bidialectal speech in a number of contexts. This dissertation focuses on two aspects related to this phenomenon, namely, its syntactic structure and its social functio…

This study investigates the syntactic constraints and social functions of Arabic-English code-switching among Saudi bilinguals living in the United States. The participants were Saudi adults and children who had lived three to seven years in the United States. The researcher, an…