Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Notes on Contributors iv
4. 1 Introducing Arabic Corpus Linguistics 1
5. 2 Under the Hood of arabiCorpus 17
6. 3 Tunisian Arabic Corpus: Creating a Written Corpus of an ‘Unwritten’ Language 30
7. 4 Accessible Corpus Annotation for Arabic 56
8. 5 The Leeds Arabic Discourse Treebank: Guidelines for Annotating Discourse Connectives and Relations 76
9. 6 Using the Web to Model Modern and Qurʾanic Arabic 100
10. 7 Semantic Prosody as a Tool for Translating Prepositions in the Holy Qurʾan: A Corpus-Based Analysis 120
11. 8 A Relational Approach to Modern Literary Arabic Conditional Clauses 143
12. 9 Quantitative Approaches to Analysing come Constructions in Modern Standard Arabic 170
13. 10 Approaching Text Typology through Cluster Analysis in Arabic 201
14. Appendix Arabic Transliteration Systems Used in This Book 229
15. Index 232