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ASAL 36

Amherst, March 24-26, 2023

John Benjamins will be virtually present at ASAL 36. Check out our promotional material and discount order form through the links below. If you wish to talk about our books, your work, and possible publishing projects please get in touch with Anke de Looper anke.delooper at benjamins.nl.

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LA 271
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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 of this linguistic... full description
March 2022. xii, 240 pp.
SFSL 63
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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, the elucidation of... full description
May 2011. xviii, 281 pp.
SAL 6
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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. The volume brings... full description
July 2018. vi, 372 pp.
NLP 9
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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 and knowledge-based.... full description
August 2012. viii, 157 pp.
SAL 10
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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 the exciting... full description
July 2021. vii, 249 pp.
CILT 319
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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 and emphatic... full description
December 2011. xii, 365 pp.
LA 182
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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 Past/Perfect/Perfective... full description
February 2012. xx, 358 pp.
CILT 317
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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics

Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics

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 functionalist, each paper... full description
December 2011. xxvi, 295 pp.
SAL 1
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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 phonology/morphology... full description
August 2014. xiii, 229 pp.
SAL 5
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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 Language... full description
December 2017. vi, 250 pp.
SAL 2
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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI

Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. New York, 2012

Edited by Reem Khamis-Dakwar 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 well as language... full description
October 2014. vi, 304 pp.
SAL 3
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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 multiple areas of Arabic... full description
July 2016. xvii, 238 pp.
SAL 4
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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 do not comprise a... full description
May 2016. xii, 248 pp.
SAL 7
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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 in 2017. The chapters... full description
July 2019. vii, 220 pp.
SAL 8
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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 Arabic varieties spoken... full description
July 2019. xiii, 264 pp.
SAL 9
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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 layer, sluicing and... full description
August 2020. v, 174 pp.
SAL 11
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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. They present... full description
December 2022. xvi, 201 pp.
SAL 12
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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. Including data from... full description
January 2023. vii, 286 pp.