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Title Approaches to Arabic linguistics : presented to Kees Versteegh on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday / edited by Everhard Ditters and Harald Motzki
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 757 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 49
Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 49.
Contents Inside the speaker's mind: speaker's awareness as arbiter of usage in Arabic grammatical theory / Ramzi Baalbaki -- Pragmatics and contractual language in early Arabic grammar and legal theory / Michael Carter -- Idmar in the ma'ani of al-farra' : a grammatical approach between description and explanation / Kinga Devenyi -- Arabic alla di as a conjunction : an old problem and a new approach / Werner Diem -- Les origines de la grammaire arabe, selon la tradition : description, interpretation, discussion / Pierre Larcher -- Sibawayhi's view of the zarf as an 'amil / Aryeh Levin -- Problems in the medieval Arabic theory of sentence types / Yishai Peled -- Arabic avant la lettre. Divine, prophetic, and heroic Arabic / Stefan Wild -- Inflection and government in Arabic according to Spanish missionary grammarians from Damascus (XVIIIth Century) : grammars at the crossroads of two systems / Otto Zwartjes -- Linguistics. The linguistic analysis and rules of pause in Arabic / Salman H. Alani -- The explanation of homonymy in the lexicon of Arabic / Georges Bohas and Abderrahim Saguer -- The periphrastic bilingual verb construction as a marker of intense language contact. Evidence from Greek, Portuguese and Maghribian Arabic / Louis Boumans -- Fa'ula, fa'ila, fa'ala : dispersion et regularites semantiques dans les trois schemes simples du verbe arabe / Joseph Dichy --Featuring as a disambiguation tool in Arabic natural language processing / Everhard Ditters -- Arabic on the media : hybridity and styles / Mushira Eid -- The use of morphological patterns in Arabic Grammars of Turkic / Robert Ermers -- Lexical gaps in Arabic : evidence from dictionaries / Jan Hoogland -- Masdar formation / Joost Kemers -- Methodologie linguistique : organisation de la langue arabe. Organisation generale des langues / Andre Roman -- Dialects. How to be KOOL in Arabic writing : linguistic observations from the side line / Gert Borg -- "Hello, I say, and welcome! where from, these riding men?" : Arabic popular poetry and political satire : a study in intertextuality from Jordan / Clive Holes -- Notes on the dialects of the 'legat and hamadah of southern Sinai / Rudolf de Jong -- Classical and colloquial Arabic / Archaisms Alan S. Kaye -- Do they speak the same language? language use in Juba local courts / Catherine Miller -- Paradigmatic stability and final laryngeals in Nigerian Arabic : why history repeats itself, without actually doing so / Jonathan Owens -- Some aspects of diglossia as reflected in the vocabulary of literary and colloquial Arabic / Judith Rosenhouse -- Everything you always wanted to know about?al, yi?ul 'to say' in Egyptian Arabic / Manfred Woidich
Summary Covers Arabic linguistics, dialects (diglossia, creolization, pidginization), the history of Arabic grammar
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Arabic philology.
Arabic language.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
Arabic language
Arabic philology
Arabistiek.
Taalkunde.
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Versteegh, C. H. M.
Ditters, Everhard.
Motzki, Harald.
ISBN 9789047422136
9047422139