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Date: 26 Apr 2013
From:Mai Zaki <maizaki at gmail.com>
Subject:Volume on Demonstratives in Arabic CFP

Call for submission

*Demonstratives in Arabic: Varieties and Perspectives*

An edited volume on Arabic demonstratives

Contributions addressing any aspect of or theoretical approach to Arabic
demonstratives are invited.

Publisher: The editors of the new series, Studies in Arabic Linguistics, at
John Benjamins have expressed interest.

Editor: Mai Zaki, American University of Sharjah (mzaki at aus.edu)

Attracting little attention in current approaches to Arabic linguistics,
demonstratives are fundamental features of the language. In the syntax,
they function, as pronouns or modifiers of nouns, as deictic expressions,
such as *hādā*, *dālika*, and their reflexes, or locational adverbs, as *
hunā*, *hunāk*, and their reflexes. Pragmatically, they focus attention on
objects or locations in the speech situation, organizing the information
flow in the ongoing discourse, keeping track of prior discourse, activating
specific shared knowledge, and orienting the discourse in the surrounding
situation. In their semantics, they contrast positions within the discourse
proximally, referring to entities near the deictic center; medially,
indicating some remove from the center; and distal, denoting referents at a
distance from the deictic center. As many other aspects of the grammar of
Arabic, its demonstratives are unusual in that their etymologies are
transparently derived from historical antecedents, whereas in most
languages, demonstratives are so old that their development is not
etymologically analyzable. This volume is intended to be a rich resource of
original research on Arabic demonstratives, both in the standard and
colloquial varieties, from all theoretical perspectives.

Submission: Researchers interested in submitting a contribution should send
a 300 word abstract by 31 May 2013 to the editor Mai Zaki. Abstracts should
include a tentative title but not the identity of the author(s).

Date of Notification and final drafts: Contributions will be reviewed
anonymously by a panel, and notification of acceptance will be by 31 July
2013, with final drafts to be submitted by 31 December 2013.


Mai Zaki

Department of Arabic and Translation Studies

American University of Sharjah

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