Mixed styles in spoken Arabic in Egypt : : somewhere between order and chaos / / by Gunvor Mejdell.

This volume deals with the linguistic behaviour of Egyptian academics in a specific setting: the panel presentation - assumed to represent a discourse genre, to which speakers will respond with some kind of similar stylistic norm, reflected in linguistic choices among variants of a feature. The feat...

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Superior document:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 48
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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 48.
Physical Description:1 online resource (495 p.)
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • ARABIC AND THE ISSUE OF STANDARD LANGUAGE
  • INTERMEDIATE FORMS—‘MIXED STYLES’
  • VARIANTS OF COMPLEMENTIZERS WITH THE EMBEDDING OF NOUN CLAUSES (“THAT”-CLAUSES)
  • DEMONSTRATIVES
  • THE EXPRESSION OF NEGATION
  • THE RELATIVE PHRASE
  • PRONOUN SUFFIXATION
  • RESULTS, INTERPRETATION, AND CONCLUSIONS
  • SEQUENTIAL PRESENTATION OF VARIANTS
  • TRANSCRIBED TEXT
  • TRANSLATION OF TEXT
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.