Investigating Arabic : : current parameters in analysis and learning / / edited by Alaa Elgibali.

• Superior document: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, v. 42
• TeilnehmendeR: Elgibali, Alaa.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 42.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 pages)

This book represents a major contribution to the field of Arabic linguistics. It gives in depth treatments of the current issues in Arabic linguistics and makes excellent readings for graduate courses and for linguists at large.

Table of Contents

Introduction (Alaa Elgibali); Chapter One Breaking the Rules without Wanting to: Hypercorrection in Middle Arabic Texts (Kees Versteegh); Chapter Two Acquisition of Arabic as a Native Language: Implications for Linguistic Analysis (Alaa Elgibali); Chapter Three A Case for an Inter-Arabic Grammar (Ali Farghaly); Chapter Four Polysemy in Arabic Dialects (Zeinab Ibrahim); Chapter Five Weak Verbs in Arabic (Abdellah Chekayri); Chapter Six Towards a Grammar of Spoken MSA: A Corpus-based Approach (Sameh Al-Ansary)

Chapter Seven The Grammatical Tradition and Arabic Language Teaching: A View from Here (Jonathan Owens); Chapter Eight Teaching Arabic Dialectology in European Universities: Why, What, and How (Soha Abboud-Haggar); Chapter Nine An Error Analysis of Malay Students' Written Arabic (Adil Elsheikh Abdalla); Chapter Ten Verbal Report Data and L2 Reading Comprehension: The Case of the Think Aloud Technique (Mahmoud Abdalla); Chapter Eleven Contrastive Analysis of the Segments of French and Arabic (Daniel L. Newman); Notes on the Contributors; Bibliography; Index