Publications

Publication details [#30262]

Mitchell, T.F. and S.A. El-Hassan. 1994. Modality, mood, and aspect in spoken Arabic, with special reference to Egypt and the Levant. (Library of Arabic linguistics 11). Kegan Paul International. xx + 129 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect2 | language variation | taxonomy

Language as a subject

Arabic

Annotation

This volume actually only constitutes a taxonomy of variant structures in the Arabic dialects of Egypt and the Levant, with almost no discussion of the social and functional significance of this variation.

Reviewed by

Eisele, John C. 1996. Review of $Modality, mood, and aspect in spoken Arabic, with special reference to Egypt and the Levant.