Format:
XVII, 264 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
9780415778442
,
0415778441
Series Statement:
Routledge Arabic linguistics series 6
Content:
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 -- David Wilmsen
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction: The once and future study of information structure in Arabic: from Jurjani to Grice
,
Explaining ø and overt subjects in spoken Arabic
,
Word order and textual function in Gulf Arabic
,
Information structure in the Najdi dialects
,
Word order in Egyptian Arabic: form and function
,
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
,
From complementizer to discourse marker: the functions of ??nno in Lebanese Arabic
,
The (absence of) prosodic reflexes of given/new information status in Egyptian Erabic
,
Moroccan Arabic-French codeswitching and information structure
,
Conversation markers in Arabic-Hausa codeswitching: saliency and language hierarchies
,
Understatement, euphemism, and circumlocution in Egyptian Arabic: cooperation in conversational dissembling ; David Wilmsen.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203875834
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203875834
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Arabisch
;
Gesprochene Sprache
;
Konferenzschrift
Bookmarklink