Arabic-L:LING:New Dissertation:Tense, Aspect, Modality in Diglossic Cairene

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Date: 13 Jun 2012
From:omoshref at GMAIL.COM
Subject:New Dissertation:Tense, Aspect, Modality in Diglossic Cairene

Institution:  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Completed Degree Date: 2012

Author: Ola Moshref

Dissertation Title:Corpus study of tense, aspect, and modality in diglossic
speech in Cairene Arabic

Dissertation URL:  https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/31159

Dissertation Director(s): Elabbas Benmamoun


Dissertation Abstract:

Morpho-syntactic features of Modern Standard Arabic mix intricately with
those of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic in ordinary speech. I study the
lexical, phonological and syntactic features of verb phrase morphemes and
constituents in different tenses, aspects, moods. A corpus of over 3000
phrases was collected from religious, political/economic and sports
interviews on four Egyptian satellite TV channels. The computational
analysis of the data shows that systematic and content morphemes from both
varieties of Arabic combine in principled ways. Syntactic considerations
play a critical role with regard to the frequency and direction of
code-switching between the negative marker, subject, or complement on one
hand and the verb on the other. Morph-syntactic constraints regulate
different types of discourse but more formal topics may exhibit more mixing
between Colloquial aspect or future markers and Standard verbs.

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