SubjectsLinguistics / Afro-Asiatic languages
Book series
ISSN 1382-3485
Journals
Arabic Linguistics
Edited by Enam Al-Wer, Lina Choueiri and Uri Horesh
ISSN 2950-1806 | E‑ISSN 2950‑1792
ISSN 0044-8699
Asian Languages and Linguistics
Edited by Danqing Liu, Ailan Fu and Gong Cheng
ISSN 2665-9336 | E‑ISSN 2665‑9344
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication
Edited by Henning Klöter and Ke Zhang
ISSN 0957-6851 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9838
The New Arabic Lexicon and its Words: Root-based and templatic morphosyntax
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
Root syntax, with roots as primitive lexical units, is an influential theme in building the lexicon in linguistic theory, typically in Distributed Morphology, and the generative model of minimal computation. Implementing important fragments of the Arabic lexicon, the book presents a comprehensive… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 21] 2026. xi, 285 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXV: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Washington, D.C., 2022
Edited by Ahmad Al-Qassas
This volume contains nine chapters that cover a wide range of topics in Arabic linguistic research. The papers are organized into four parts; these are phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, and decolonizing linguistics. Drawing on a wide range of Arabic varieties, articles in… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 14] 2025. vii, 219 pp.
Proper Names
Edited by Chia-Jung Pan and Yang Huang
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 6:1 (2025) v, 252 pp.
Selected Papers from the 37th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
Edited by Reem Khamis and Mira Goral
Special issue of Arabic Linguistics 1:2 (2025) v, 135 pp.
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact
Edited by Farah Ali, Carol Ready and Sherez Mohamed
This volume brings together empirical research in sociolinguistics that focuses on Arabic and Spanish contact across different geopolitical, sociocultural, and digital spaces. Bridging historical and modern sociolinguistic perspectives, this volume challenges the marginalization of Arabic-Spanish… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 44] 2025. vii, 222 pp.
Predication in African Languages
Edited by James Essegbey and Enoch O. Aboh
This book discusses patterns of predication and their grammatical and semantic implications in a variety of African languages. It covers several prominent topics about predication in the languages, including locative predication, expressions of tense, aspect, and mood in relation to verbal… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 235] 2024. xi, 344 pp.
Asian Perspectives on Queer Discourse
Edited by Ke Zhang and Chao Lu
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 33:2 (2023) vi, 152 pp.
Ethnolinguistic contact across the Indo-Myanmar-Southwestern China mountains
Edited by Alexander R. Coupe, Randy J. LaPolla and Hideo Sawada
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 4:2 (2023) v, 218 pp.
Patterns and Representation in Arabic Place Assimilation
Islam Youssef
This book is a phonological investigation of place assimilation phenomena in two major Arabic dialects: Cairene Egyptian and Baghdadi Iraqi. The studied phenomena involve interactions between consonants (various types of local assimilation), between vowels (monophthongization), or between… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 13] 2023. xii, 230 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, 2020
Edited by Mahmoud Azaz
This volume brings together eleven peer-reviewed articles on Arabic linguistics. The contributions fall under three areas of linguistics: Phonology and phonetics; syntax and semantics; and language acquisition, language contact, and diglossia. They reflect some various perspectives and emphases.… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 12] 2023. vii, 286 pp.
Reconsidering Language and Gender in Contemporary Japan and among the Japanese Diaspora amid the #MeToo Movement
Edited by Kikuko Omori and Hiroshi Ota
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 33:1 (2023) v, 110 pp.
Arabic Dislocation
Ali A. Alzayid
Since the early years of generative grammar (Chomsky 1977, inter alia), the phenomenology of dislocation has proved to be a fertile area of research. This, however, has not been the case for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and hence this thorough monograph intends to fill this lacuna. Three aspects… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 271] 2022. xii, 240 pp.
Classifiers
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 3:2 (2022) v, 227 pp.
Identity and Communication in Asian Contexts
Edited by Asmah Haji Omar and Michael Dimitrios Hadzantonis
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 32:1 (2022) v, 191 pp.
Language and Islam in the Asian Pacific
Edited by Ali H. Al-Hoorie
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 32:2 (2022) v, 95 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII: Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 2019
Edited by Abdel-Khalig Ali and Atiqa Hachimi
This volume features eight peer-reviewed chapters based on papers presented at the 33rd Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Toronto in 2019. The chapters are divided into four sections: sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology, syntax, and first language acquisition.… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 11] 2022. xvi, 201 pp.
Experimental Arabic Linguistics
Edited by Dimitrios Ntelitheos and Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung
This volume is the first systematic attempt to survey current progress in the relatively new field of Experimental Arabic Linguistics. While experimental work on Arabic linguistics has appeared sporadically in several venues in the past, the chapters in this book provide a more coherent picture of… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 10] 2021. vii, 249 pp.
Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Ethiopian Languages
Edited by Derib Ado, Almaz Wasse Gelagay and Janne Bondi Johannessen †
The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The Gurage languages, that often present a descriptive and sociolinguistic puzzle to… read more
Language and Communication of Asian Diaspora Communities in Europe
Edited by Zi Wang and Florian Coulmas
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 31:2 (2021) v, 175 pp.
Preparing Teachers for Addressing the Sociocultural Issues with Asian Pacific Immigrants and Refugees
Edited by Yin Lam Lee-Johnson and Hsiao-Chin Kuo
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 31:1 (2021) v, 121 pp.
Developments in Diglossic Settings in the Asian Pacific Region
Edited by Marinus van den Berg
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 30:1/2 (2020) vi, 310 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXII: Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tempe, Arizona, 2018
Edited by Elly van Gelderen
This volume presents a collection of seven peer-reviewed articles on Arabic phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and applied linguistics. The authors address stress assignment, the phenomenon of 'imāla, the place of articulation of the dorsal fricative, the structure of correlatives, the CP… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 9] 2020. v, 174 pp.
Syntactic and Semantic Variation in Copular Sentences: Insights from Classical Hebrew
Daniel J. Wilson
This book presents a novel account of syntactic and semantic variation in copular and existential sentences in Classical Hebrew. Like many languages, the system of Classical Hebrew copular sentences is quite complex, containing zero, pronominal, and verbal forms as well as eventive and inchoative… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 261] 2020. xvi, 159 pp.
Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax
Edited by Ruth A. Berman
The goal of the volume is to shed fresh light on Modern Hebrew from perspectives aimed at readers interested in the domains of general linguistics, typology, and Semitic studies. Starting with chapters that provide background information on the evolution and sociolinguistic setting of the language,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 210] 2020. xviii, 682 pp.
The Carthaginian North: Semitic influence on early Germanic: A linguistic and cultural study
Robert Mailhammer and Theo Vennemann
This book presents a new and innovative theory on the origin of the Germanic languages. This theory presents solutions to four pivotal problems in the history of Germanic with critical implications for cultural history: the origin of the Germanic writing system (the Runic alphabet), the genesis of… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 32] 2019. xiii, 268 pp.
Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew
Edited by Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube
The emergence of Modern Hebrew as a spoken language constitutes a unique event in modern history: a language which for generations only existed in the written mode underwent a process popularly called “revival”, acquiring native speakers and becoming a language spoken for everyday use. Despite the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 256] 2019. ix, 390 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXX: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics, Stony Brook, New York, 2016 and Norman, Oklahoma, 2017
Edited by Amel Khalfaoui and Matthew A. Tucker
This volume contains selected papers from the Thirtieth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics that was held at Stony Brook University in 2016, as well as two articles that are based on papers presented at the Thirty-First Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Oklahoma… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 7] 2019. vii, 220 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017
Edited by Amel Khalfaoui and Youssef A. Haddad
This volume brings together ten peer-reviewed articles on Arabic linguistics. The articles are distributed over three parts: phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics and pragmatics, and language acquisition. Including data from North African, Levantine, and Gulf varieties of Arabic, as well as… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 8] 2019. xiii, 264 pp.
Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes: Sex and sophistry in the Old Testament - A new English translation
T. Givón
This book is a new English translation of the two shortest, most controversial and perhaps most vibrant books in the Hebrew Old Testament – Song of Songs (Song of Solomon) and Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). The two books slipped into the Jewish – and eventually Christian – Canon by a series of… read more[Not in series, 222] 2019. ix, 159 pp.
Vagueness and Elasticity of 'Sort of' in TV Discussion Discourse in the Asian Pacific
Edited by Vahid Parvaresh and Grace Zhang
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29:1 (2019) v, 147 pp.
Afroasiatic: Data and perspectives
Edited by Mauro Tosco
The articles in the present volume offer an updated view of the breadth of theoretical and empirical research being carried on in the different subgroups of the Afroasiatic phylum. They are written by leading specialists and are representative of widely different perspectives and interests, from… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 339] 2018. vi, 288 pp.
Arabic in Contact
Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco
The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations, it explores both contact-induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. read moreCzech and Slovak Contributions to African Studies
Special issue of Archív Orientální 86:3 (2018) 234 pp.
Expressions de la bhakti dans les littératures indiennes
Special issue of Archív Orientální 86:2 (2018) 142 pp.
Strategic Communication: Beyond nation cultural adaption, images and identity
Edited by Hassan Abu Bakar and Bahtiar Bin Mohamad
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28:1 (2018) v, 194 pp.
Applied Linguistics in the Middle East and North Africa: Current practices and future directions
Edited by Atta Gebril
This volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of applied research efforts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This region has not received due attention in the literature and this publication provides a much-needed contribution to the existing body of knowledge. The editor… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 15] 2017. ix, 390 pp.
Development of Tense/Aspect in Semitic in the Context of Afro-Asiatic Languages
Vit Bubenik
The author applies the comparative method for the reconstruction of earlier aspectual systems in the Afro-Asiatic phylum of languages. Moving ‘upstream’ from the documented systems of Semitic, Berber and Old Cushitic the state of affairs during the common stage of Proto-Semito-Berbero-Cushitic is… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 337] 2017. xx, 228 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIX: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2015
Edited by Hamid Ouali
This volume features a set of selected peer-reviewed articles, which represent research by some very prominent scholars and some promising researchers in the field. The articles cover a wide range of areas in Arabic linguistics, namely Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 5] 2017. vi, 250 pp.
The Roles of Communication on a Regional Conflict: Antipathy, Nationalism, and Conflicts among China, Japan, and South Korea
Edited by Eung-jun Min
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 27:2 (2017) v, 111 pp.
Syllable Weight in African Languages
Edited by Paul Newman
Syllable weight is a crucially important concept in the fields of phonology and morphology. It impacts analyses and explanation whether theoretical, typological, or descriptive. African linguistics was critical in the original development of the concept and, as this book demonstrates, the concept… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 338] 2017. x, 219 pp.
Acquisition and Development of Hebrew: From infancy to adolescence
Edited by Ruth A. Berman
The volume addresses developing knowledge and use of Hebrew from the dual perspective of typologically specific factors and of shared cross-linguistic trends, aimed at providing an overview of acquisition in a single language from infancy to adolescence while also shedding light on key issues in… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 19] 2016. xvii, 404 pp.
Asian Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca and Identity
Edited by Chit Cheung Matthew Sung
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:2 (2016) vi, 182 pp.
Introduction to Healthcare for Arabic-speaking Interpreters and Translators
Ineke H.M. Crezee, Nawar Gailani and Anna N. Gailani
Arabic is a language of substantial cultural and religious importance. It is spoken by about 300 million people, predominantly in the 22 countries of the Arab world, as well as in several other regions where the Arab diaspora has settled. Arabic is also the language of Islam and underpins the… read more[Not in series, 209] 2016. xxx, 395 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013
Edited by Stuart Davis and Usama Soltan
The study of Arabic dialects has been an important and rich area of research over the past thirty-five years or so, with significant implications for modern linguistic analysis. The current volume builds on this tradition with ten scholarly contributions that provide novel data and analyses in… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 3] 2016. xvii, 238 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Gainesville, Florida, 2014
Edited by Youssef A. Haddad and Eric Potsdam
This volume makes important contributions to the growing body of descriptive and theoretical studies in Arabic linguistics. It focuses on the rich linguistic work being done on Arabic dialects. The papers on individual dialects draw attention to the micro-variation that exists, emphasize that they… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 4] 2016. xii, 248 pp.
Restructuring Chinese Speech Communities: Urbanization, language contact and identity formation
Edited by Marinus van den Berg
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:1 (2016) v, 173 pp.
Tibetan Margins
Guest-edited by Daniel Berounský and Jarmila Ptáčková
Special issue of Archív Orientální 84:3 (2016) iv, 195 pp.
Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages
Edited by Amina Mettouchi, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet
This volume presents new findings based on the analysis of spoken corpora in thirteen different Afro-Asiatic languages – a unique endeavor in the domain of lesser-described languages. It will be of interest to corpus linguists, general linguists, typologists, and linguists specializing in… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 68] 2015. vi, 338 pp.
Death, Graves and the Hereafter in Islam: Muslim Perceptions of the Last Things During the Middle Ages and Today
Guest-edited by Bronislav Ostřanský and Miroslav Melčák
Special issue of Archív Orientální 83:3 (2015) iv, 228 pp.
Explored but not Assumed: Revisiting Commonalities in Asian Pacific Communication
Edited by Hui-Ching Chang and Ling Chen
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:1 (2015) v, 164 pp.
Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa
Edited by James Essegbey, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin
This volume brings together a number of important perspectives on language documentation and endangerment in Africa from an international cohort of scholars with vast experience in the field. Offering insights from rural and urban settings throughout the continent, these essays consider topics that… read more[Culture and Language Use, 17] 2015. vi, 317 pp.
Media and communication as antecedents to the transformation agenda in Malaysia: Challenges and realities
Edited by Ali Salman
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:2 (2015) vi, 157 pp.
Anxiety, Insecurity, and Border Crossing: Language Contact in a Globalizing World
Edited by Mie Hiramoto and Joseph Sung-Yul Park
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24:2 (2014) vi, 184 pp.
The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm
Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli
This volume brings together articles by some major figures in various linguistics domains — phonology, morphology and syntax — aiming at explaining the form of linguistic items by exploring the structures that underlie them.The book is divided in 5 parts: vowels, syllables, templates,… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 12] 2014. vii, 377 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV–XXV: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics. Texas, 2010 and Arizona, 2011
Edited by Samira Farwaneh and Hamid Ouali
This volume provides important contributions to Arabic linguistics and Linguistic research in general by presenting new empirical facts and innovative theoretical analyses. It consists of two major parts: the first contains four papers on phonology and morphology, most of which deal with… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 1] 2014. xiii, 229 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. New York, 2012
Edited by Reem Khamis and Karen Froud
This volume provides a unique collection of studies representing diversity and innovation in Arabic linguistics. The volume includes several groundbreaking papers authored by leaders in the field organized around key aspects of Arabic morphosyntax, semantics, phonology, and sociolinguistics, as… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 2] 2014. vi, 304 pp.
Animation in Asia
Edited by John A. Lent
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 23:1 (2013) v, 177 pp.
Popular Culture and Literature in Taiwan
Special issue of Archív Orientální 81:3 (2013) vi, 250 pp.
Social Tension in Modern Indian Literature and FIlm
Special issue of Archív Orientální 81:1 (2013) iv, 126 pp.
Trends in Media and Communication Research in Malaysia
Edited by Fauziah Ahmad
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 23:2 (2013) vi, 134 pp.
Challenges for Arabic Machine Translation
Edited by Abdelhadi Soudi, Ali Farghaly, Günter Neumann and Rabih Zbib
This book is the first volume that focuses on the specific challenges of machine translation with Arabic either as source or target language. It nicely fills a gap in the literature by covering approaches that belong to the three major paradigms of machine translation: Example-based, statistical… read more[Natural Language Processing, 9] 2012. viii, 157 pp.
Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
In light of recent generative minimalism, and comparative parametric theory of language variation, the book investigates key features and parameters of Arabic grammar. Part I addresses morpho-syntactic and semantic interfaces in temporality, aspectuality, and actionality, including the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 182] 2012. xx, 358 pp.
Language Management Approach: Probing the Concept of "Noting"
Edited by Helen Marriott and Jiří Nekvapil
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 22:2 (2012) vi, 163 pp.
Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew
Ron Kuzar
Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew offers an innovative perspective on sentential syntax, in which sentence patterns are introduced as constructions within the general framework of Construction Grammar. Drawing on naturally occurring data collected from the Internet, the study challenges the… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 12] 2012. xvii, 254 pp.
Shaping Public Opinion from the Sahara to the Caucasus (16th to 21st Centuries)
Special issue of Archív Orientální 80:2 (2012) xvi, 213 pp.
The Arabic Verb: Form and meaning in the vowel-lengthening patterns
Warwick Danks
The Arabic verbal system is, for most grammarians, the keystone of the language. Notable for the regularity of its patterns, it presents the linguist with an unparalleled opportunity to explore the Saussurean notion of the indivisible sign: form and meaning. Whilst Arabic forms are well-documented,… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 63] 2011. xviii, 281 pp.
Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas: With special reference to Africa
Edited by Osamu Hieda, Christa König and Hiroshi Nakagawa
Is Africa a linguistic area (Heine & Leyew 2008)? The present volume consists of sixteen papers highlighting the linguistic geography of Africa, covering, in particular, southern Africa with its Khoisan languages. A wide range of phenomena are discussed to give an overview of the pattern of social,… read more[Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2] 2011. vi, 321 pp.
Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their… read more[Not in series, 161] 2011. xviii, 421 pp.
Institutional Politeness in (South) East Asia
Edited by Francesca Bargiela and Dániel Z. Kádár
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 21:1 (2011) vi, 158 pp.
Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics
Edited by Zeki Majeed Hassan and Barry Heselwood
Brought together in this volume are fourteen studies using a range of modern instrumental methods – acoustic and articulatory – to investigate the phonetics of several North African and Middle Eastern varieties of Arabic. Topics covered include syllable structure, quantity, assimilation, guttural… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 319] 2011. xii, 365 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XXII–XXIII: College Park, Maryland, 2008 and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2009
Edited by Ellen Broselow and Hamid Ouali
The present volume presents cutting-edge research on Arabic linguistics. It features a set of papers which continue a long tradition of seeking new explanations for familiar or previously undiscovered structural patterns. While the papers illustrate a range of approaches, from formalist to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 317] 2011. xxvi, 295 pp.
Practices of Truth: An ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts
Baudouin Dupret
The claim of this book is that truth is a matter of language games and practical achievements: it is a “member phenomenon”. To document this statement, it proceeds to the investigation of instances of truth-related practices in various Arab contexts. Bearing on the constitution of actions and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 214] 2011. xiv, 173 pp.
Trust and Risk in East Asia
Special issue of Archív Orientální 79:2 (2011) 93 pp.
Medical Communication in the Asia Context
Edited by M. Agnes Kang and Olga Zayts-Spence
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 20:2 (2010) vi, 166 pp.
Arab News and Conflict: A multidisciplinary discourse study
Samia Bazzi
The Arab-Israeli struggle is not only a struggle over land, but a struggle over language representations. Arab reporters as well as politicians believe that their political discourses about the Middle East conflict are objective, accurate, and credible. Arab News and Conflict critically examines… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 34] 2009. xiv, 222 pp.
Biliterate Asian Students' Literacy Practices in North America
Edited by Youngjoo Yi and Alan Hirvela
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 19:1 (2009) 180 pp.
Coding Participant Marking: Construction types in twelve African languages
Edited by Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Whereas Africa as a typological area is often associated with extensive verb morphology and verb serialization, this collection of studies shows that there is tremendous typological diversity at the clausal level. Verb serialization in the Khoisan area contrasts with extensive case-marking in… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 110] 2009. xvi, 389 pp.
Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007
Edited by Bernard Comrie, Ray Fabri, Elizabeth Hume, Manwel Mifsud, Thomas Stolz and Martine Vanhove
This collection of articles highlights a selection of on-going research projects. Phonological, morphological, and syntactic issues are addressed by international experts on Maltese. The diachronic development of Maltese, its age-long contact with Italo-Romance, and the present diglossic situation… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 113] 2009. xi, 422 pp.
Media Discourse in Greater China
Edited by Sai-hua Kuo and Doreen D. Wu
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 19:2 (2009) v, 166 pp.
Metalanguage in Interaction: Hebrew discourse markers
Yael Maschler
Metalanguage in Interaction is about the crystallization of metalanguage employed throughout interaction into the discourse markers which permeate talk. Based on close analysis of naturally-occurring Hebrew conversation, it is a synchronic study of the grammaticization of discourse markers, a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 181] 2009. xvi, 258 pp.
Chinese Students: Perspectives on their social, cognitive, and linguistic investment in English medium interaction
Edited by Sophie Arkoudis and Chris Davison
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 18:1 (2008) 140 pp.
Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics
Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem, Gabi Danon and Susan Rothstein
This volume presents a collection of specially commissioned papers devoted to analyzing the linguistics of Modern Hebrew from a number of perspectives. Various aspects of Modern Hebrew grammar are discussed including the structure of the lexicon, grammatical features and inflectional morphology, as… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 134] 2008. vii, 393 pp.
Interaction of Morphology and Syntax: Case studies in Afroasiatic
Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay
The present volume deals with hitherto unexplored issues on the interaction of morphology and syntax. These selected and invited papers mainly concern Cushitic and Chadic languages, the least-described members of the Afroasiatic family. Three papers in the volume explore one or more typological… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 75] 2008. v, 234 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XXI: Provo, Utah, March 2007
Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson
This volume contains a selection of reviewed and revised papers from the twenty-first Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, which was held on March 2–3, 2007, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The papers in this volume deal with a variety of topics in Arabic linguistics with a notable… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 301] 2008. x, 206 pp.
Culture, Contexts, and Communication in Multicultural Australia and New Zealand: An Introduction
Edited by Yunxia Zhu and Herbert Hildebrandt
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 17:1 (2007) 176 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XIX: Urbana, Illinois, April 2005
Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun
This volume offers a selection from the papers presented at the 2005 Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The papers cover a variety of topics in Arabic Linguistics, ranging from the lexicon, phonology, syntax and computational linguistics. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 289] 2007. xiv, 304 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XX: Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 2006
Edited by Mustafa A. Mughazy
This volume includes twelve papers selected from the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held in 2006 at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. The papers in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues pertaining to Arabic, particularly in the areas of phonology,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 290] 2007. xii, 247 pp.
Asian Business Discourse(s) Part II
Edited by Francesca Bargiela
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:1 (2006) 164 pp.
Language Planning and Varieties of (Modern Standard) Chinese
Edited by Minglang Zhou
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:2 (2006) 208 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVI: , Cambridge, March 2002
Edited by Sami Boudelaa
The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held in Cambridge, UK, in 2002. They deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in varieties of Arabic. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 266] 2006. xii, 181 pp.
Studies in African Linguistic Typology
Edited by F.K. Erhard Voeltz
The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic typology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 64] 2006. xiv, 426 pp.
Asian Business Discourse(s) Part I
Edited by Francesca Bargiela
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 15:2 (2005) 121 pp.
Multiple Perspectives on L1 and L2 Academic Literacy in Asia Pacific and Diaspora Contexts
Edited by Xiaoming Li and Christine Pearson Casanave
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 15:1 (2005) iv, 207 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVII–XVIII: Alexandria, 2003 and Norman, Oklahoma 2004
Edited by Mohammad T. Alhawary and Elabbas Benmamoun
The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics, held in 2003 (Alexandria) and 2004 (Oklahoma). They tackle a broad range of issues in current linguistic research, particularly in the areas of phonology, morphology/lexicon,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 267] 2005. xvi, 315 pp.
Academic Interaction
Edited by Helen Marriott
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 14:1 (2004) 199 pp.
Africa and Applied Linguistics. AILA Review, Volume 16
Edited by Sinfree Makoni and Ulrike H. Meinhof
AILA Review is a publication of the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée, an international federation of national associations for applied linguistics. Volume 16 of AILA Review is the first to appear with John Benjamins and contains a unique collection of articles, guest-edited by… read more[AILA Review, 16] 2003. ii, 173 pp.
Communication and Culture in Korea: At the crosswinds of tradition and change
Edited by Eung-jun Min and Eunkyong Yook
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 13:1 (2003) iv, 163 pp.
Democracy in Contemporary Egyptian Political Discourse
Michele Durocher Dunne
When politicians and pundits in the Middle East discuss democracy, do they mean it? Looking at public discourse about democracy in contemporary Egypt, Dunne proposes a fresh way of reading Arabic political discourse. She charts a method combining ethnographic research into communities of people… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 6] 2003. xii, 178 pp.
An Introduction to African Languages
G. Tucker Childs
This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate… read more[Not in series, 121] 2003. xx, 265 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-Based, Morphology
Edited by Joseph Shimron
This book puts together contributions of linguists and psycholinguists whose main interest here is the representation of Semitic words in the mental lexicon of Semitic language speakers. The central topic of the book confronts two views about the morphology of Semitic words. The point of the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 28] 2003. vi, 394 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XV: Salt Lake City 2001
Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson and Samira Farwaneh
This volume includes nine papers selected from the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Four of the papers deal with the area of corpus linguistics (new for this series), including papers from both a computational and a variationist point of view. The other papers deal with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 247] 2003. x, 214 pp.
Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000
Edited by Jacqueline Lecarme
This volume contains 22 of the papers presented at the 5th Conference on Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5) held at Université Paris VII in June 2000. The authors report their latest research on the syntax, morphology, and phonology of quite a number of languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Tigrinya,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 241] 2003. vii, 547 pp.
First Language Attrition, Use and Maintenance: The case of German Jews in anglophone countries
Monika S. Schmid
This book is a study of the L1 attrition of German among German Jews who emigrated to anglophone countries under the Nazi regime. It places the study of language attrition within the historical and sociocultural framework of Weimar and Nazi Germany, applying issues of identity and identification to… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 24] 2002. xiv, 259 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Language in South Africa: The role of language in national transformation, reconstruction and development
Victor Webb
Language in South Africa (LiSA) debates the role of language and language planning in the reconstruction, development and transformation of post-apartheid democratic South Africa. The 1996 constitution of South Africa is founded on the political philosophy of pluralism and is directed at promoting… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 14] 2002. xxviii, 357 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XIII-XIV: Stanford, 1999 and Berkeley, California 2000
Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson and Elabbas Benmamoun
The papers in this collection derive from the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics held in Stanford (1999) and Berkeley (2000). The selection is noteworthy for its diversity of approach, and for a noticeable broadening of the kinds of questions that are being asked and the kind of data being… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 230] 2002. xiv, 250 pp.
Postvelar Harmony
Kimary N. Shahin
This book examines the formal bases of postvelar harmony and its crosslinguistic variation. It is of interest especially to phonologists concerned with segmental harmony and its explanation within Optimality Theory. Postvelar harmony in two unrelated languages, Palestinian Arabic and St'át'imcets… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 225] 2002. viii, 344 pp.
Semitic and Indo-European: Volume II: Comparative morphology, syntax and phonetics
Saul Levin
This is a sequel to the author's Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies (1995). That volume provided the key examples of morphological correspondences between the Semitic and the Indo-European languages. In this sequel, the author analyzes correspondences of structure, either within a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 226] 2002. xviii, 592 pp.
Semitic and Indo-European: 2 Volumes (set)
Saul Levin
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 129+226] 2002. xxii, 514 pp. & xviii, 592 pp.
Hausa
Philip J. Jaggar
Hausa is a major world language, spoken as a mother tongue by more than 30 million people in northern Nigeria and southern parts of Niger, in addition to diaspora communities of traders, Muslim scholars and immigrants in urban areas of West Africa, e.g. southern Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo, and the… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 7] 2001. xxxiv, 754 pp.
Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse
Esam N. Khalil
Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse explores the discourse notion of grounding (viz. the foreground-background structure), and examines it in the various structures that occur in short news texts. A text-level approach to grounding and the differentiation between several core concepts… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 82] 2000. x, 274 pp.
Research in Afroasiatic Grammar: Papers from the Third conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis, 1996
Edited by Jacqueline Lecarme, Jean Lowenstamm and Ur Shlonsky
This volume presents a selection of papers from the 3rd Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1996. The languages discussed include (varieties of) Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, Chaha, Wolof, and Old Egyptian. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 202] 2000. vi, 386 pp.
Sound Mutations: The morphophonology of Chaha
Degif Petros Banksira
This monograph, which evolved from the first linguistic dissertation to be written on Chaha (an Ethiopian Semitic language), is also the first book to deal exclusively with the phonology and morphology of the language. It is an exhaustive description and analysis, by a native speaker, of the sound… read more[Not in series, 93] 2000. xxxii, 332 pp.
Word Order, Agreement and Pronominalization in Standard and Palestinian Arabic
Mohammad A. Mohammad
The two related issues of word order, and subject-verb agreement have occupied center stage in the study of Arabic syntax since the time of Sibawayhi in the eighth century. This book is a contribution to both of these areas. It is grounded within the generative grammar framework in one of its most… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 181] 2000. xvi, 189 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XII: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1998
Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun
The papers in this volume deal with various topics in Arabic Linguistics. Most of the papers focus on new issues and introduce new empirical generalizations that haven't been studied before within the context of Arabic linguistics. The syntax and morphosyntax papers explore issues ranging from the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 190] 1999. vii, 204 pp.
Politics and Sociolinguistic Reflexes: Palestinian border villages
Muhammad Hasan Amara
This sociolinguistic study describes and analyzes an Israeli Palestinian border village in the Little Triangle and another village artificially divided between Israel and the West Bank, tracing the political transformations that they have undergone, and the accompanying social and cultural changes.… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 19] 1999. xx, 261 pp.
Somali
John Saeed
Somali is spoken by more than nine million people in the Horn of Africa and by expatriate communities in the Middle East, Europe and North America. It is the official language of Somalia and an important regional language in Ethiopia and Kenya. As a Cushitic language Somali is part of the great… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 10] 1999. xv, 295 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XI: Atlanta, Georgia, 1997
Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun, Mushira Eid and Niloofar Haeri
The papers in this volume address core areas in contemporary Arabic linguistics: syntax, phonology, and variation studies. The papers in the syntax sections address different topics from the perspective of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995) and subsequent work. The topics in this section are… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 167] 1998. viii, 231 pp.
The “Broken” Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic: Allomorphy and analogy in non-concatenative morphology
Robert R. Ratcliffe
The formal aspects of non-concatenative morphology have received considerable attention in recent years, but the diachronic dimensions of such systems have been little explored. The current work applies a modern methodological and theoretical framework to a classic problem in Arabic and Semitic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 168] 1998. xii, 261 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume X: Salt Lake City, 1996
Edited by Mushira Eid and Robert R. Ratcliffe
The papers in this volume are a selection of papers presented at the 10th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (Salt Lake City, 1-3 March 1996). The contributions are:Remarks on Focus in Standard Arabic: Jamal Ouhalla;Definiteness Realization and Function in Palestinian Arabic: Dina Belyayeva;… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 153] 1997. vii, 296 pp.
Grammaticalization of the Complex Sentence: A case study in Chadic
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
The general objective of the study is systematic examination of the processes involved in the formation and evolution of complex sentence constructions in a group of genetically related languages. The Chadic language group, at about 140 languages, constitutes the largest and most diversified branch… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 32] 1996. xviii, 501 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VIII: Amherst, Massachusetts 1994
Edited by Mushira Eid
This volume includes ten papers selected from the Eighth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Masschusetts, Amherst, 1994. Six of them deal with the syntax of Arabic two with phonology, and two with variation. The topics represented in the volume include binding in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 134] 1996. vii, 261 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume IX: Washington D.C., 1995
Edited by Mushira Eid and Dilworth B. Parkinson
This volume includes twelve papers selected from the Ninth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 1995. Three of the papers deal with codeswitching with Arabic, two with the acquisition of Arabic, and four with different aspects of Arabic grammatical… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 141] 1996. xiii, 249 pp.
The Explanation of Linguistic Causes: Az-Zağğāğī's Theory of Grammar. Introduction, translation, commentary
Kees Versteegh
The ultimate aim of every linguistic tradition is to go beyond the purely descriptive level and seek an explanation for linguistic phenomena. Traditions differ, however, with regard to the class of linguistic phenomena they wish to explain and the framework in which they define their explanation.… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 75] 1995. xvi, 310 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VII: Austin, Texas 1993
Edited by Mushira Eid
This volume includes ten papers selected from the Seventh Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. For the first time in this series, three of the papers represent experimental studies dealing with Arabic syllable and morphological structure. Four are focused on aspects of agreement in Arabic. The… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 130] 1995. vii, 192 pp.
Semitic and Indo-European: Volume I: The Principal Etymologies. With observations on Afro-Asiatic
Saul Levin
This volume presents the key examples of morphological correspondences between Indo-European and Semitic languages, afforded by nouns, verbal roots, pronouns, prepositions, and numerals. Its focus is on shared morphology embodied in the cognate vocabulary.The facts that are brought out in this… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 129] 1995. xxii, 514 pp.
Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Analysis: A contrastive study of sign systems in English and Hebrew
Yishai Tobin
This volume provides a new kind of contrastive analysis of two unrelated languages English and Hebrew based on the semiotic concepts of invariance, markedness and distinctive feature theory. It concentrates on linguistic forms and constructions which are remarkably different in each language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 111] 1994. xxii, 406 pp.
Language, Discourse and Translation in the West and Middle East
Edited by Robert de Beaugrande, Abdullah Shunnaq and Mohamed Helmy Heliel
The papers collected in this volume are a selection of papers presented at a conference on Language and Translation (Irbid, Jordan, 1992). In their revised form, they offer comparisons between Western and Arabic language usage and transfer. The articles bring together linguistic and cultural… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 7] 1994. xii, 256 pp.
Najdi Arabic: Central Arabian
Bruce Ingham
The region of Najd in Central Arabia has always been regarded as inaccessible, ringed by a belt of sand deserts, the Nafūd, Dahana and the Rub’ al-Khāli and often with its population at odds with the rulers of the outer settled lands. It is however the centre of a purely Arabian culture based on a… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 1] 1994. xvi, 215 pp.
On the History of Grammar among the Arabs
Ignaz Goldziher
This essay was written in 1878 by I. Goldziher, who is considered one of the founders and greatest masters of Islamic studies in Europe. He examines the origin and early history of Arabic grammar and some features of its later development with special regard to the cultural historical apsects of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 73] 1994. xx, 153 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VI: Columbus, Ohio 1992
Edited by Mushira Eid, Vicente Cantarino and Keith Walters
This volume divides into 3 sections: I. Arabic in Contact: the Hispano-Arabic Connection; II. Arabic in Contact: Other Connections; III. Phonological Perspectives.read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 115] 1994. viii, 238 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume V: Ann Arbor, Michigan 1991
Edited by Mushira Eid and Clive Holes
The papers in the first section of this volume, 'Variation in Arabic', deal with a wide range of topics: the function of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) vs. dialect variation in political speeches, patterns of variation in concord in Cairene dialect, the extent to which Cairenes 'know' MSA, and the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 101] 1993. viii, 347 pp.
Topics in African Linguistics: Papers from the XXI Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Georgia, April 1990
Edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene and Lioba Moshi
The 16 papers in this volume are revised versions of papers presented at the conference; they represent the state of the art in various subfields of African linguistics into which the book is organized: (1) morphosyntax, (2) semantics, (3) phonology, and (4) language contact. The last part covers… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 100] 1993. x, 307 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume IV: Detroit, Michigan 1990
Edited by Ellen Broselow, Mushira Eid and John McCarthy
This volume includes papers on the study of Arabic dialects and their implications for general linguistics (Section I), as well of papers of a more general nature (Sections II and III). Because the Arabic dialects are similar in many ways, a study of their differences can help isolate precisely the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 85] 1992. viii, 282 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume III: Salt Lake City, Utah 1989
Edited by Bernard Comrie and Mushira Eid
This is the third in a continuing series of papers presented at the annual meetings of the Arabic Linguistic Society whose primary purpose is to provide a forum for the study of Arabic within current approaches in linguistics. The volume includes a section on Arabic in relation to other languages,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 80] 1991. xii, 274 pp.
Repetition in Arabic Discourse: Paradigms, syntagms and the ecology of language
Barbara Johnstone
In this examination of expository prose in contemporary Arabic, structural and semantic repetition is found to be responsible both for linguistic cohesion and for rhetorical force. Johnstone identifies and discusses repetitive features on every level of analysis. Writers in Arabic use lexical… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 18] 1991. viii, 130 pp.
Early Arabic Grammatical Theory: Heterogeneity and standardization
Jonathan Owens
The Arabic grammatical tradition is remarkable for having organized a large amount of descriptive material within a sophisticated formal framework. The present study seeks to elucidate the early development of this system from a theory-internal perspective; it is mainly concerned with the… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 53] 1990. xvi, 294 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume I: Salt Lake City, Utah 1987
Edited by Mushira Eid
This volume provides a general perspective on aspects of Arabic in relation to various areas of linguistics. To the general linguist, it is a source of information and data on Arabic analyzed within current models of analysis; to the Arabic linguist, it provides current analyses of both familiar… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 63] 1990. xiii, 293 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume II: Salt Lake City, Utah 1988
Edited by Mushira Eid and John McCarthy
The papers in this volume approach the study of Arabic, its structure and use, from different linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. The book is divided into three sections: Section I Morphological and Phonological Perspectives; Section II Semantic Perspectives; Section III Sociolinguistic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 72] 1990. xiv, 332 pp.
Studies in the History of Arabic Grammar II: Proceedings of the second symposium on the history of Arabic grammar, Nijmegen, 27 April–1 May, 1987
Edited by Kees Versteegh and Michael G. Carter
This volume presents papers given at the second Symposium on the History of Arabic Grammar (Nijmegen, 1987). The subject has many aspects and invites many different approaches, which might roughly be categorized into three main groupings, viz. treatments of individual grammarians, examinations of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 56] 1990. x, 320 pp.
Current Progress in Chadic Linguistics: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chadic Linguistics, Boulder, Colorado, 1–2 May 1987
Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier
The volume consists of papers prepared for the International Symposium of Chadic Linguistics (Boulder, Colorado, May 1-2, 1987). Although the papers are representative of the current work being done in the field of Chadic linguistics, they also reflect the current and past interests and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 62] 1989. vi, 312 pp.
The Foundations of Grammar: An introduction to medieval Arabic grammatical theory
Jonathan Owens
The Arabic grammatical tradition is one of the great traditions in the history of linguistics, yet it is also one that is comparatively unknown to modern western linguistics. The purpose of the present book is to provide an introduction to this grammatical tradition not merely by summarizing it,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 45] 1988. xii, 371 pp.
Fucus: A Semitic/Afrasian Gathering in Remembrance of Albert Ehrman
Edited by Yoël L. Arbeitman
This is a memorial volume for Albert Ehrman. The contributions of this Gedenkschrift testify to his scholarly excellence in the field of Judaic-Semitic lexicography and etymology, and do full justice to the richness and thought inspiring qualities of his publications. Besides the papers in honour… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 58] 1988. xvi, 530 pp.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Hamito-Semitic Congress
Edited by Herrmann Jungraithmayr and Walter W. Mueller
The papers in this volume derive from the 4th International Hamito-Semitic Congress, held in Marburg in 1983. The papers deal with the (morpho)phonology or syntax of individual languages or language (sub)families, and many have a diachronic angle. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 44] 1987. xiv, 609 pp.
The Semantics of Form in Arabic: In the mirror of European languages
David Justice
Justice's first aim in this volume is to demystify the Arabic language, which is widely perceived as difficult to learn, and has been characterised as ambiguous and confusingly polysemous. The central concern of this three-dimensional portrait of Classical Arabic is a version of the Sapir-Whorf… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 15] 1987. iv, 417 pp.
African Linguistics: Essays in Memory of M.W.K. Semikenke
Edited by Didier L. Goyvaerts
This volume presents papers on issues in African linguistics, covering a variety of African languages and ranging from phonology to lexicology. read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 6] 1985. v, 508 pp.
Jordanian Arabic between Diglossia and Bilingualism: Linguistic analysis
Salah M. Suleiman
Suleiman provides a linguistic analysis of Jordanian Arabic spoken by educated groups and in particular by students at Yarmouk University. He investigates the extent to which spoken Jordanian Arabic is affected by the classical-colloquial dichotomy (i.e. the extent to which diglossia is involved).… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:8] 1985. xvi, 131 pp.
Current Progress in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics: Papers of the Third International Hamito-Semitic Congress, London, 1978
Edited by James Bynon
The papers in this volume derive from the Third Hamito-Semitic Congress, which took place in London in 1978. The papers, loosely grouped according to language families and theoretical issues, are in a number of cases considerably expanded and updated version of those presented at the conference.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 28] 1984. xi, 505 pp.
Pidginization and Creolization: The Case of Arabic
Kees Versteegh
This book is concerned with the notions of “pidginization” and “creolization” and the role of these processes of language learning in the history of the Arabic language. It is argued that when a new type of Arabic emerged after the Islamic conquests in the 7th century AD, the language went through… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 33] 1984. xiii, 194 pp.
The History of Linguistics in the Near East
Edited by Kees Versteegh, E.F.K. Koerner † and Hans-Josef Niederehe
This collection of papers deals with aspects of the history of Arabic and Hebrew linguistics. These papers appeared simultaneously in Historiographia Linguistica 8:2/3 (1981). read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 28] 1982. xii, 265 pp.
Arab Linguistics: An introductory classical text with translation and notes
Edited by Michael G. Carter
This volume provides an analysis of a famous medieval Arabic grammatical text, al-Ājurrūmiya (c. 1300), as commented on by aš-Šhirbīnī (d. 1570). This edition includes the original text and a translation into English, as well as extensive comments and annotations, with the aim of making accessible… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 24] 1981. ix, 485 pp.
Be and Equational Sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic
Mohamed Sami Anwar
The volume attempts to deal with equational sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and their remote structure. In this unique monograph Mohamed Sami Anwar oes to show that equational sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic are derived from underlying sentences that have transitive or intransitive… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 2] 1979. vi, 128 pp.
Die Anfänge der hebräischen Grammatik (1895), together with Die hebräische Sprachwissenschaft vom 10. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert (1892)
Wilhelm Bacher (1850–1913)
The present volume reproduces two still unsurpassed accounts of the flourish and eventual decline of Hebrew linguistic scholarship covering the period from the 10th to the 16th century, at a time when Christian scholars and theologians – as a result of the Reformation with its emphasis on the… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 4] 1974. xix, 57, 235 pp.