Information structure in spoken Arabic. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jonathan Owens and Alaa Elgibali.
• Other Names: Owens, Jonathan; Elgibali, Alaa
• Contents: The once and future study of information structure in Arabic / Jonathan Owens -- Explaining Ø and overt subjects in spoken Arabic / Jonathan Owens, William Young, Trent Rockwood, David Mehall, Robin Dodsworth -- Word order and textual function in Gulf Arabic / Clive Holes -- Information structure in the Najdi dialects / Bruce Ingham -- Word order in Egyptian Arabic / Malcolm Edwards -- The information structure of existential sentences in Egyptian Arabic / Mustafa Mughazy -- The pragmatics of information structure in Arabic / Mohammed Farghal -- From complementizer to discourse marker / Marie Aimée Germanos -- The (absence of) prosodic reflexes of given/new information status in Egyptian Arabic / Sam Hellmuth -- Moroccan Arabic-French codeswitching and information structure / Karima Ziamari -- Conversation markers in Arabic-Hausa codeswitching / Jonathan Owens, Jidda Hassan -- Understatement, euphemism, and circumlocution in Egyptian Arabic / David Wilmsen.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages), (17 illustrations)
• Subjects: 492.701/41; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; Arabic language -- Spoken Arabic; Arabic language -- Discourse analysis; Pragmatics; Code switching (Linguistics)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781135968397
• Related ISBNs: 113596839X
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.