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Publication details [#61239]
Davis, Stuart and Usama Soltan, eds. 2016. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII. Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013. (Studies in Arabic Linguistics 3). John Benjamins. xvii, 238 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
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 linguistics: Syntax and its interfaces; regional and sociolinguistic variation; and first language acquisition. The linguistic facts in the volume are drawn from the various Arabic dialects spoken in North Africa, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, and Standard Arabic, and the analyses proposed reflect current approaches in linguistic theory.