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