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1) Subject: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XII
1) Subject: RURAL PALESTINIAN ARABIC

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1)
Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XII

John Benjamins Publishing announces the availability of a new work in
Arabic Linguistics:

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XII.
Papers from the Twelfth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics,
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1998.
Elabbas BENMAMOUN (ed.)
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 190
US & Canada: 1 55619 967 8 / USD 75.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3696 8 / NLG 150.00 (Hardcover)

The papers in this volume deal with various topics in Arabic
Linguistics.  Most of the papers focus on new issues and introduce new
empirical generalizations that haven't been studied before within the
context of Arabic linguistics. The syntax and morphosyntax papers
explore issues ranging from the nature of extraction strategies to
various types of Construct State representations and the proper
analysis of the distribution of the nominal, adjectival and verbal
mophological features.  The computational linguistics papers focus on
the challenge posed by the non-concatenative nature of Arabic
morphology. The authors illustrate how their programs can handle
Arabic morphology. The papers in morpho-phonology and historical
linguistics deal with the development of the Arabic complementizer
system and the empirical and theoretical problems that arise in the
context of hypocoristic formation in Arabic.  The sociolinguistics
papers take up the issues of sociolinguistic variation as they pertain
to the phenomenon of diglossia and regional uses of the Standard
variety of Arabic.

Contributions by: Joseph Aoun; Kenneth R. Beesley; Lina Choueiri;
Jamil Daher; Stuart Davis; Peter Hallman; Zeinab Ibrahim; George Anton
Kiraz; Mohammad Mohammad; Dilworth B. Parkinson; David Testen; Bushra
Adnan Zawaydeha.

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2)
Date: 09 Mar 2000
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: RURAL PALESTINIAN ARABIC

RURAL PALESTINIAN ARABIC, 2ND EDITION
KIMARY N. SHAHIN
Birzeit University

This sketch describes a rural (fellahi) dialect of colloquial
Palestinian Arabic, that of the pre-1948 Palestine village of Abu
Shusha.  It is used by a dwindling number of speakers on the West Bank
and Gaza strip, and in locations around the Arab world and elsewhere.
Abu Shusha Palestinian is endangered.  This is due to the original
dispersion of its speakers and resulting interdialect contact, the
increasing age of its speakers, and pressure from Standard Arabic (as,
in general, on all non-urban varieties of the language) for speakers
to conform to more urban and educated speech.  Like all Arabic
colloquials, it is unwritten.

The phonemic, morphological, and syntactic systems are described.  A
sample text is presented with interlinear gloss and translation. Two
features are highlighted. The first is the vowel system, which has
many more important systematic distinctions than traditionally assumed
for Arabic. The second is the discourse, specifically, structures and
strategies as found in the sample text.

The documentation of the sketch will help in furthering work on
comparative Arabic dialectology.  This second edition improves on the
first in documentation and analysis.  New material includes verb types
(strong vs. weak) and bibliographic update.

ISBN 3 89586 960 0.
Languages of the World/Materials 28.
50 pp. USD 32.50 / DM 49.30 /  £ 19.90.
2nd edition: 03/2000

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