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Arabic and contact-induced change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 702

Arabic and contact-induced change

This volume offers a synthesis of current expertise on contact-induced change in Arabic and its neighbours, with thirty chapters written by many of the leading experts on this topic. Its purpose is to showcase the current state of knowledge regarding the diverse outcomes of contacts between Arabic and other languages, in a format that is both accessible and useful to Arabists, historical linguists, and students of language contact.

Languages of the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 503

Languages of the World

Requiring no background in linguistics, this book introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages.

Tu+ 1: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Turkish, Turkic and the Languages of Turkey
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 194

Tu+ 1: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Turkish, Turkic and the Languages of Turkey

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-05-20
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Proceedings of the first workshop on Turkish, Turkic, and the languages of Turkey. Contents: Isa Kerem Bayırlı On the complex connectives in Turkish Jennifer Bellik Feature domains and lexically conditioned harmony in Turkish Tatiana Bondarenko Subject marking and scrambling effects in Balkar nominalizations Colin Davis Auxiliaries in North Azeri and some related issues Ophélie Gandon Relative clause strategies in languages of East Anatolia: Divergence and convergence Tamarae Hildebrandt Turkish scrambling within single clause wh-questions Laura Kalin & Ümit Atlamaz Reanalyzing Indo-Iranian "stems": A case study of Adıyaman Kurmanji Jaklin Kornfilt Turkish comitatives: The genuine and the apparent Sabine Laszakovits What Turkish conditionals can teach us about the question particle Filiz Mutlu Iconic templates in Turkish Matthew Tyler A Locality Restriction on Indexical Shift: Evidence from Turkish Jonathan Washington An ultrasound study of the articulatory correlates of vowel anteriority in three Turkic languages Gita Zareikar Aspect and evidentiality in Azeri

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII

This volume makes important contributions to the growing body of descriptive and theoretical studies in Arabic linguistics. It focuses on the rich linguistic work being done on Arabic dialects. The papers on individual dialects draw attention to the micro-variation that exists, emphasize that they do not comprise a uniform group, and reveal the implications of dialectal variation for linguistic theory. The chapters are distributed over three parts: phonetics and phonology, syntax, and sociolinguistics. They address first and second language acquisition, historical linguistics, phonetics, aspects of negation, light verb constructions, raising verbs, and sociolinguistic variation. The book is indispensable reading for those working in dialect description, the analysis of Arabic and the Semitic languages, and linguistic theory more generally.

Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 730

Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar

This book develops a minimalist approach to cross-linguistic morphosyntactic variation. Ian Roberts argues that the essential insight of the principles-and-parameters approach to variation can be maintained - albeit in a somewhat different guise - in the context of the minimalist program for linguistic theory. The central idea is to organize the parameters of Universal Grammar (UG) into hierarchies that define the ways in which properties of individually variant categories and features may act in concert. A further leading idea, which is consistent with the overall goal of the minimalist programme to reduce the content of UG, is that the parameter hierarchies are not directly determined by U...

Arabic in Contact
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Arabic in Contact

The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations, it explores both contact-induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. The volume brings together leading scholars who address a variety of topics related to contact-induced change, the emergence of contact languages, codeswitching, as well as language ideologies in contact situations. It offers insights from different theoretical approaches in connection with research fields such as descriptive and historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, and language acquisition. It provides the general linguistic public with an updated, cutting edge overview and appreciation of themes and problems in Arabic linguistics and sociolinguists alike. As of January 2023, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 999

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-12-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics introduces readers to the major facets of research on Arabic and of the linguistic situation in the Arabic-speaking world. The edited collection includes chapters from prominent experts on various fields of Arabic linguistics. The contributors provide overviews of the state of the art in their field and specifically focus on ideas and issues. Not simply an overview of the field, this handbook explores subjects in great depth and from multiple perspectives. In addition to the traditional areas of Arabic linguistics, the handbook covers computational approaches to Arabic, Arabic in the diaspora, neurolinguistic approaches to Arabic, and Arabic as a global language. The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics is a much-needed resource for researchers on Arabic and comparative linguistics, syntax, morphology, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics, and also for undergraduate and graduate students studying Arabic or linguistics.

Morphological Complexity within and across Boundaries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 429

Morphological Complexity within and across Boundaries

This volume brings together a collection of original articles investigating state-of-the-art themes in morphology. The papers in the volume provide an in-depth analysis for spoken and sign languages within morphological word domain, morphosyntax and morphophonology. Bringing data from a variety of languages including Turkish, some understudied ones (e.g. Turkish Sign Language, Late Ottoman Turkish) and also endangered languages (e.g. Karachay-Balkar, Sauzini, Cappadocian, Aivaliot and Pharasiot Greek), the volume will be of special interest to a wide audience ranging from typologists to theoretical linguists and graduate students in linguistics and is expected to generate further research on the above mentioned languages, as well as to contribute to the cross-linguistic literature on the themes explored in the volume.

The Grammar of the Utterance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

The Grammar of the Utterance

"This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance 'do things' with conversational units of language, paying particular attention to what they do with utterance-oriented elements such as vocatives, interjections, and particles; and to what they do with illocutionary complementisers, items attested cross-linguistically which look like, but do not behave like, subordinators. Taking the behaviour of conversation-oriented units of language as a window into the indexical nature of language, it argues that these items provide insight into how language-as-grammar builds the universe of discourse. By identifying the underlying unity in how different Ibero-Romance languages, alongside their Romance co...

Grammar of Khuzestani Arabic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 413

Grammar of Khuzestani Arabic

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-07-18
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book is the first comprehensive description of the Arabic variety spoken in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. It contains a detailed description of its grammar based on fieldwork data with numerous examples and a collection of authentic texts.