Information structure in spoken Arabic / edited by Jonathan Owens and Alaa Elgibali.

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Superior document:Routledge Arabic linguistics series
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Routledge Arabic linguistics series.
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Physical Description:xvii, 264 p. :; ill., maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • The once and future study of information structure in Arabic / Jonathan Owens
  • Explaining and overt subjects in spoken Arabic / Jonathan Owens, William 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 / Malcolm Edwards
  • The information structure of existential sentences in Egyptian Arabic / Mustafa Mughazy
  • The pragmatics of information structure in Arabic / Mohammed Farghal
  • From complementizer to discourse marker / Marie Aim{acute}ee Germanos
  • The (absence of) prosodic reflexes of given/new information status in Egyptian Arabic / Sam Hellmuth
  • Moroccan Arabic-French codeswitching and information structure / Karima Ziamari
  • Conversation markers in Arabic-Hausa codeswitching / Jonathan Owens, Jidda Hassan
  • Understatement, euphemism, and circumlocution in Egyptian Arabic / David Wilmsen.