The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics
Routledge Language Handbooks Series

TheRoutledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics introduces readers to the major facets of research on Arabic and of the linguistic situation in the Arabic-speaking world.

The edited collection includes chapters from prominent experts on various fields of Arabic linguistics. The contributors provide overviews of the state of the art in their field and specifically focus on ideas and issues. Not simply an overview of the field, this handbook explores subjects in great depth and from multiple perspectives.

In addition to the traditional areas of Arabic linguistics, the handbook covers computational approaches to Arabic, Arabic in the diaspora, neurolinguistic approaches to Arabic, and Arabic as a global language.

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics is a much-needed resource for researchers on Arabic and comparative linguistics, syntax, morphology, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics, and also for undergraduate and graduate students studying Arabic or linguistics.

Contents

Introduction

Bassiouney and Benmamoun

Part I Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

1. Arabic Phonology, Eiman Mustafawi

2. Syllable Structure in the Dialects of Arabic, Ellen Broselow

3. Pharyngeal and Emphatic Consonants, Ryan K. Shosted, Maojing Fu, and Zainab Hermes

4. Stems in Arabic Morphology and Phonology, Adamantios Gafos

Part II Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics

5. The Syntax of Tense in Arabic, Hamid Ouali

6. Negative Sensitive Items, Ahmad Al-Qassas

7. Resumption, Lina Choueiri

8. Personal Datives in Lebanese Arabic, Youssef Haddad

9. Arabic Semantics, Peter Hallman

10. Arabic Functional Linguistics, Ahmed Moutaouakil

Part III Experimental and Computational Approaches

11. First Language Acquisition of Arabic, Abdulkafi Albirini

12. Neurophysiological investigations in studies of Arabic linguistics: The case of Arabic diglossia, Reem Khamis-Dakwar and Karen Froud

13. Arabic Heritage Speakers in the US, Abdulkafi Albirini

14. Experimental Data and Arabic Morphology, Ali Idrissi

15. Arabic Speech and Language Technology, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Mohamed Elmahdy, and Eiman Mustafawi

Part IV History, Contact, and Variation

16. Arabic and the other Semitic Languages, Ahmad Al-Jallad

17. Diglossia, Gunver Mejdell

18. An Alternative Approach: Understanding Diglossia/Code-switching Through Indexicality: The Case of Egypt, Reem Bassiouney

19. Patterns of Variation and Change in the Arab World, Angeles Vicente

20. Social Status, Language and Society in the Arab World, Irene Theodoropoulou

21. New Elaborate Written Forms in Darija: Blogging, Posting and Slamming in 2015 Morocco, Dominique Caubet

22. Arabic as a Contact Language, Stefano Manfredi

23. Contemporary Arabic-based Pidgins in the Middle East, Fida Bizri

24. Linguistic Anthropology Approaches to Arabic, Becky Schulthies

25. Peripheral Arabic, Faruk Akkuş

Part V Ideology, Policy, and Education

26. Arab Nationalism and/as Language Ideology, Keith Walters

27. Waves of Arabization and the Vernaculars of North Africa, Christophe Pereira

28. The Arabic Language and Political Ideology, Mariam Abolezz

29. Arabic Political Discourse, Emad Abdul Latif

30. Language Policy and Planning: The case of Morocco: A Critical Approach, Adil Moustaoui

31. Challenges of Arabic Language Education Policies in the Arab World, Muhammad Amara

32. Arabic Language Teachers’ Conceptions of Assessment and the Hidden Tension between Accountability and Improvement: Examples from Egyptian Schools, Atta Gebril

Index

Elabbas Benmamoun is Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Linguistics at Duke University, USA.

Reem Bassiouney is Professor in the Applied Linguistics Department at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.