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1) Subject: New Book:Brustad:Comparative Dialects

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Date: 15 Dec 2000
From: grellag1 at georgetown.edu
Subject: New Book:Brustad:Comparative Dialects

Georgetown University Press is very pleased to announce the publication
of a new book,

The Syntax of Spoken Arabic
A Comparative Study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian, and Kuwaiti Dialects
by Kristen E. Brustad

This book is the first comparative study of the syntax of Arabic
dialects, based on natural language data recorded in Morocco, Egypt,
Syria, and Kuwait. These four dialect regions are geographically diverse
and representative of four distinct dialect groups.

Kristen E. Brustad has adopted an analytical approach that is both
functional and descriptive, combining insights from discourse analysis,
language typology, and pragmaticsóthe first time such an approach has
been used in the study of spoken Arabic syntax. An appendix includes
sample texts from her data.

Brustad's work provides the most nuanced description available to date
of spoken Arabic syntax, widens the theoretical base of Arabic
linguistics, and gives both scholars and students of Arabic tools for
greater cross-dialect comprehension.

Kristen E. Brustad is an associate professor of Arabic at Emory
University. She is co-author, with Mahmoud Al-Batal and Abbas Al-Tonsi,
of the Arabic language program  "Al-Kitaab fii Ta allum al-Arabiyya: A
Textbook for Arabic," published by Georgetown University Press.

 464 pp.ISBN 0-87840-789-8, paper, $39.95

Ordering information:

In the U.S. and countries not listed below, send orders (prepaid in U.S.
dollars, by check, Visa, or Mastercard) to:
Georgetown University Press
 P.O. Box 4866, Baltimore, MD  21211-0866

U.S. Phone:  1-800-246-9606 or 410-516-6995
FAX:  410-516-6998

Please include shipping and handling fee:  US: $4.00 first copy, $.75
per additional copy. Foreign: $5.50 first copy, $1.50 per additional
copy (surface mail).
(DC orders please add 5.75% sales tax).

For the countries below, please contact distributor directly for pricing
information and shipping fees.. Prices may vary outside U.S.

Canadian customers: Please order from Scholarly Book Services, 473
Adelaide Street West, 4th Floor, Toronto, ONT M5V 1T1; Telephone
800-847-9736.
FAX 800-220-9895.

UK and Europe : Send orders to Georgetown University Press,  c/o
Plymbridge Distributors, Ltd., Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PY, United
Kingdom.
Telephone 44 (0) 1752 202301.  FAX 44 (0) 1752 202333.

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