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<p class=Normal11 style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font
size=3 face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>Dear
all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=Normal11 style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font
size=3 face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>I
am looking for a searchable corpus of spontaneous oral MSA (Modern Standard
Arabic).<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=Normal11 style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font
size=3 face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>I
am particularly interested in instances of what I call “faulty accusatives”,
cf:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=Normal11 style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><i><font
size=3 face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal;
font-style:italic'>wāħid: ’an yakūn ladēk hadaf</span></font></i></b><i><font
size=3><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>an</span></font></i><font
size=3><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'> “One: that
you should have an objective” </span></font><font size=3><span lang=ES
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>–</span></font><font size=3><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'> Muħammad
Ħasanain Haikal, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Ma‘a Haikal (With
Haikal)</span></i>, Al-Jazeera, 2008.03.20.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=Normal11 style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font
size=3 face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>In
other words, examples of erroneous use (according to Arabic grammatical
tradition) of the accusative indefinite </span></font></b><i><font size=3><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>–an</span></font></i><font
size=3><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>, usually
instead of nominative indefinite </span></font><i><font size=3><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>–un</span></font></i><font
size=3><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'> (most
often elided).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=Normal11 style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font
size=3 face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>What
can be observed in spontaneous production of MSA appears to correspond very
closely to what is known as “syntactic direct object [initial consonant] mutation”
in Welsh, which in fact covers rather more than just indefinite direct objects.
Quite a lot has been written on Welsh syntactic mutation in recent years, with
various explanations for the observable instances, not all of which are covered
by traditional grammars.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=Normal11 style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font
size=3 face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>However,
as far as I know, nothing has been written on such “faulty accusatives” in
spontaneous MSA; the assumption appears to be that since there are technically
no native speakers, there can be no reliable linguistic analysis of such
“slips” – they are just random mistakes, not worth analysing.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=Normal11 style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font
size=3 face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>I
am not convinced that that is the case; I believe that some users of MSA
achieve near-native fluency, and hence develop their own internal grammar,
which may not coincide on all points with the formal traditional grammar of <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>fuṣḥà</span></i>. Such error patterns thus
become significant, revealing something about the speaker’s internal grammar.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=Normal11 style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font
size=3 face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;background:yellow;
font-weight:normal'>Can anyone help me to find a reliable and searchable corpus
of spontaneous oral MSA Arabic (either in Arabic script or in transcription) which
has not been edited for such “mistakes”.</span></font></b><font size=3><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'> Al-Jazeera post
transcripts of some of their live talk shows in which numerous non-MSA items (<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>šū, mā fīš, dil-wa’ti</span></i>,
etc.) are faithfully reproduced, but I am not certain that <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>wāħid: ’an yakūn ladēk hadaf</span></i></span></font><i><font
size=3><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>an</span></font></i><font
size=3><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'> would not
be edited to a more “correct” <i><span style='font-style:italic'>wāħid:
’an yakūn ladēk hadaf</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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size=3 face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>Many
thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=Normal11 style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font
size=3 face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>Steve
Hewitt<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=Normal11 style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font
size=3 face=Gentium><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'><a
href="mailto:s.hewitt@unesco.org"><i><span style='font-style:italic'>s.hewitt@unesco.org</span></i></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

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