Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editorial Note vii
4. Introduction ix
5. I. Sociolinguistics
6. Discourse Particles Revisited 3
7. Theories of Code Switching in the Light of Empirical Evidence from Egypt 19
8. Translating Arabic Speech Act Expressions 41
9. II. Syntax
10. Relative Clauses in Syrian Arabic 53
11. Interpretability, Feature Strength, and Impoverished Agreement in Arabic 85
12. III. Corpus Linguistics
13. Evolution of MSA, the Case of Some Complementary Particles 135
14. NP-Structure Types in Spoken and Written Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Corpora 149
15. Comparing Frequencies of Lexical Productions in Arabic Words 181
16. Future Variability 191
17. Index of Subjects 213