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Title: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XV Subtitle: Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Salt Lake City 2001 Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 247 Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ http://www.benjamins.nl Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT_247 Editor: Dilworth B. Parkinson, Brigham Young University Editor: Samira Farwaneh, University of Arizona Hardback: ISBN: 1588114872, Pages: x, 214 pp., Price: USD 132.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9027247595, Pages: x, 214 pp., Price: EUR 110.00 Abstract: Table of contents Editorial Note vii Introduction Dilworth B. Parkinson ix I. Sociolinguistics Discourse Particles Revisited: The Case of Wallahi in Egyptian Arabic Mustafa A. Mughazy 3--17 Theories of Code Switching in the Light of Empirical Evidence from Egypt Reem Bassiouney 19--39 Translating Arabic Speech Act Expressions Rudolf Reinelt 41--50 II. Syntax Relative Clauses in Syrian Arabic: Two Reconstruction Problems James Darrow 53--83 Interpretability, Feature Strength, and Impoverished Agreement in Arabic Mark S. TeTourneau 85--131 III. Corpus Linguistics Evolution of MSA, the Case of Some Complementary Particles Mark van Mol 135--147 NP-Structure Types in Spoken and Written Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Corpora Sameh Al-Ansary 149--180 Comparing Frequencies of Lexical Productions in Arabic Words Stephen S. Taylor 181--189 Future Variability: A Corpus Study of Arabic Future Particles Dilworth B. Parkinson 191--211 Index of Subjects 213--214 Lingfield(s): Linguistic Theories Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=8757.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue