LINGUIST List 22.2448 Mon Jun 13 2011 Books: Historical Ling/Syntax/Lang Documentation: Vollers, Burkitt (Tr) Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Joyce Reid , The Modern Egyptian Dialect of Arabic: Vollers, Burkitt (Tr) Message 1: The Modern Egyptian Dialect of Arabic: Vollers, Burkitt (Tr) Date: 13-Jun-2011 From: Joyce Reid <jreidcambridge.org> Subject: The Modern Egyptian Dialect of Arabic: Vollers, Burkitt (Tr) E-mail this message to a friend Title: The Modern Egyptian Dialect of Arabic Subtitle: A Grammar with Exercises, Reading Lessons and Glossaries Published: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge University Press                 http://us.cambridge.org Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6464731/The%20Modern%20Egyptian%20Dialect%20of%20Arabic/?site_locale=en_US Author: K. Vollers Translator: F. C. Burkitt Paperback: ISBN: 9780521232975 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 15.99 Paperback: ISBN: 9780521232975 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 23.99 Abstract: Originally published in 1895, the aim of this book was to provide the reader with a guide to the contemporary spoken Arabic of Egypt, with special reference to the speech of Cairo and its neighbourhood. The greater part of the text provides the reader with the basic grammatical structure of the language. Additionally, there is a concise introduction explaining the different varieties of spoken Arabic in their relationship with Classical Arabic. Reading exercises and a sizeable glossary are contained towards the end of the text. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Arabic and the history of linguistics. Table of Contents Introduction; Part I: 1. The pronoun; 2. The verb; 3. The noun; 4. the numerals; 5. The particles; Part II. Remarks on Syntax: 6. The verb; 7. The noun; 8. Reading lessons; 9. Arabic-English Glossary; 10. English Arabic Glossary. Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics                             Historical Linguistics                             Language Documentation                             Lexicography                             Morphology                             Syntax Subject Language(s): Arabic, Egyptian Spoken (arz) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=56227 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu Hodder Education http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Morgan & Claypool Publishers Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/ Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Pearson Linguistics http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/linguistics Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ Springer http://www.springer.com University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ Wiley-Blackwell http://www.wiley.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/ International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp University of Nebraska Press Utrecht institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ Page Updated: 13-Jun-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.