Arabic Corpus Linguistics / / Nagwa Younis, Tony McEnery, Andrew Hardie.

An overview of current corpus-based research on the Arabic language Takes a perspective-based approach to the practice of corpus-based research, covering corpus building and the use of corpus-query software tools to explore the Arabic languagePresents detailed case studies of the application of meth...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Notes on Contributors --
1 Introducing Arabic Corpus Linguistics --
2 Under the Hood of arabiCorpus --
3 Tunisian Arabic Corpus: Creating a Written Corpus of an ‘Unwritten’ Language --
4 Accessible Corpus Annotation for Arabic --
5 The Leeds Arabic Discourse Treebank: Guidelines for Annotating Discourse Connectives and Relations --
6 Using the Web to Model Modern and Qurʾanic Arabic --
7 Semantic Prosody as a Tool for Translating Prepositions in the Holy Qurʾan: A Corpus-Based Analysis --
8 A Relational Approach to Modern Literary Arabic Conditional Clauses --
9 Quantitative Approaches to Analysing come Constructions in Modern Standard Arabic --
10 Approaching Text Typology through Cluster Analysis in Arabic --
Appendix Arabic Transliteration Systems Used in This Book --
Index
Summary:An overview of current corpus-based research on the Arabic language Takes a perspective-based approach to the practice of corpus-based research, covering corpus building and the use of corpus-query software tools to explore the Arabic languagePresents detailed case studies of the application of methods to studies in Arabic grammar and Arabic discourse semantics Includes contributions from scholars based in Bahrain, Canada, Egypt France, the UK and the USAThis book demonstrates the advantage of a corpus based approach to Arabic, and presents an overview of current research on the Arabic language within corpus linguistics. Dealing not only with modern standard Arabic, the book also considers classical and colloquial forms.With a range of international contributors presenting their experience of working with Arabic from a particular perspective, the book includes chapters on corpus building, the tools needed to explore the Arabic language, the use of corpora to explore the grammar of Arabic, and the study of discourse in Arabic.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780748677382
9783110780420
DOI:10.1515/9780748677382
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Nagwa Younis, Tony McEnery, Andrew Hardie.