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Name:	David  Wilmsen
Institution:	American University of Beirut
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State and/or Country:	Lebanon
Linguistic Field(s):	Discourse Analysis Historical Linguistics Pragmatics Sociolinguistics Text/Corpus Linguistics Translation
Specialty:	Arabic sociolinguistics, Arabic dialectology, Historical linguistics, Comparative Semitics
Subject Language(s):	Arabic, Standard
Language Family(ies):	Semitic
Selected Publications:	The interrogative origin of the Arabic negator –!: Evidence from copular interrogation in Andalusi Arabic, Maltese, and modern spoken Moroccan and Egyptian Arabic. Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, Fall 2013. “Grammaticalization of the Arabic demonstrative iyyā- as a pronominal object marker in ditransitive verbs: An answer to Bravmann.” Forthcoming Journal of Semitic Studies. “The Demonstrative iyyā-: A little-considered aspect of Arabic deixis.” Forthcoming Arabica. “The Ditransitive Dative Divide in Arabic: Grammaticality assessments and actuality’, in Reem Bassiouney and Graham Katz (eds.), Arabic Language and Arabic Linguistics. Washington: Georgetown University Press. 2012: 365—399. On Grammaticalization Processes in Arabic, the Use of Corpora and the Limits of Theory: Claims and counter claims”, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 2011, 106/6: 1—9. “Dialects of the Dative Shift: A re-examination of Sībawayhi’s dispute with the naḥwiyyūn over ditransitive verbs with two object pronouns”, in Bilal Orfali (ed.) In the Shadow of Arabic. Leiden: Brill. 2011, 299—321. “Dialects of Written Arabic: Syntactic differences in the treatment of object pronouns in the Arabic of Egyptian and Levantine newspapers.” Arabica, 2010, 57/1: 99—128. “Understatement, Euphemism, and Circumlocution in Egyptian Arabic: Cooperation in Conversational Dissembling,” in Owens, Jonathan, and Alaa El Gibaly editors, Information Structure in Spoken Arabic. London: Routledge. 2010: 243 — 259. “Three texts, two authors, and an editor: A case study in authorship and the negotiation of meaning in the production of a series of translations,” in, Najma Al Zidjaly, editor, Building Bridges: Integrating Language, Linguistics, Literature and Translation in Pedagogy and Research. Sultan Qaboos University Press. 2009: 147-167. “Regional standards and local routes in adoption techniques for specialised terminologies in the dialects of written Arabic,” with Riham Osama Youssef (United Nations). Journal of Specialized Translation, January 2009: 191—209.
Courses Taught:	Arabic Lexicography Introduction to Translation Topics in Arabic/English Translation Editing Beginning Arabic Intermediate Arabic Advanced Arabic Arabic sociolinguistics
Reviewer of:	Translation: Phelan (2001) (LL Issue 13.244) Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic: Diachrony and Synchrony (LL Issue 23.5132)
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