Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. 1. Overview
5. Arabic linguistics 3
6. “Come forth with a Surah like it” 39
7. 2. Grammatical prespectives
8. Sound plural and broken plural assignment in classical Arabic 55
9. The problem of subject-verb agreement in Arabic 95
10. Word order and proper government in classical Arabic 127
11. Bound anaphora in Egyptian Arabic 155
12. Time reference, tense, and formal aspect in Cairene Arabic 173
13. 3. Textual analysis perspectives
14. ‘Orality’ and discourse structure in modern standard Arabic 215
15. Loss of nominal case endings in the modern Arabic dialects 235
16. 4. Psycholinguistic perspectives
17. Bilingual linguistic memory 257
18. Slips of the tongue in Arabic 271
19. Index of subjects 291