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Date: 18 Mar  2005
From:d.newman at scarlet.be
Subject:European influence on Arabic Syntax response

Hello,

For the European influence on Arabic syntax, the following works may be  
very
useful:

Aziz, Yowell Yousef (1968): The influence of English grammar, syntax,  
idiom
and style upon contemporary literary Arabic, Unpubl. PhD thesis,  
University
of St Andrews.

Beeston, A. F. L. (1970): The Arabic language today, London: Hutchinson.

Blau, J. (1973): "Remarks on some syntactic trends in Modern Standard
  Arabic", Israel Oriental Studies, III, pp. 127-231.
Blau, J. (1976): "Some additional observations on syntactic trends in  
Modern
Standard Arabic", Israel Oriental Studies, VI, pp. 158-90.

Cantarino, Vicento (1974-5): The syntax of Modern Arabic prose, 2 vols,
Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Holes, Clive D. (1995): Modern Arabic. Structures, functions and  
varieties,
(Longman Linguistics Library), Harlow: Longman.

Monteil, Vincent (1960): L'Arabe moderne, (Etudes arabes et Islamiques.
Etudes et Documents, III), Paris: Klincksieck.

Stetkevych, Jaroslav (1970): The modern Arabic literary language.  
Lexical
and stylistic developments, (Publication of the Center for Middle  
Eastern
Studies, Number 6),

             Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Wehr H. (1943): "Entwicklung und traditionelle Pflege der arabischen
Schriftsprache in der Gegenwart", Zeitschrift der Deutschen  
Morgenländischen
Gesellschaft, 97, pp. 16-46.
Wehr, H. (1934): Die Besonderheiten des heutigen Hocharabischen mit
Berücksichtigung der Einwirkung der europäischen Sprachen, Berlin:
Reichsdruckerei.

  With kind regards,
D. Newman

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Date: 18 Mar  2005
From:mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu
Subject:European influence on Arabic Syntax response

Dear Michael

I have been noticing several patterns in the use of MSA in media that
indicate influence from European languages.

For example,

Huwa aw hiya 'he/she' to avoid sexist language
maa asmatahu amriika bil'irhaab	what the US calls terrorism

these might stylistic innovations in the language resulting from
translation. What struck me is that there is a tendency to drop
resumptive pronouns in relative clauses:

Hadded naw` al-khaT alldhi turiid
Select the type of font you want (no it at the end)

As-sajjanuun waljunuud fi jaysh al-iHtilaal yumathiluun az-zey alladhi
yalbasuun

The prison guards and soldiers of the occupation represent the uniforms
they wear

These are just a few examples of how MSA is accommodating European
languages. I hope this helps.

Mustafa Mughazy
Western Michigan University


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