Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Editorial Note ix
5. Introduction xi
6. I. MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHONOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
7. Prosodic Morphology and Templatic Morphology 1
8. Doubled Verbs in Modern Standard Arabic 55
9. Arabic Broken Plurals 94
10. Well-Formed Associations in Arabic 120
11. Levantine Cyclogenesis 143
12. Epenthesis, Gemination, and Syllable Structure 167
13. II. SEMANTIC PERSPECTIVES
14. Aspectual Classification of Verbs in Cairene Arabic 192
15. Connectives as Cohesive Elements in a Modern Expository Arabic Text 234
16. III. SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES
17. Orthographic Variation in Modern Standard Arabic 269
18. ‘Foreigner Talk’ 296
19. Index of Subjects 327