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001 2008053673
003 DLC
005 20110428082002.0
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020 $a9780415778442 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0415778441 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780203875834 (ebook)
020 $a0203875834 (ebook)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn282971539
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050 00 $aPJ6161$b.I54 2010
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245 00 $aInformation structure in spoken Arabic /$cedited by Jonathan Owens and Alaa Elgibali.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2010.
300 $axvii, 264 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aRoutledge Arabic linguistics series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe once and future study of information structure in Arabic / Jonathan Owens -- Explaining Ø and overt subjects in spoken Arabic / Jonathan Owens, William Young, Trent Rockwood, David Mehall, Robin Dodsworth -- Word order and textual function in Gulf Arabic / Clive Holes -- Information structure in the Najdi dialects / Bruce Ingham -- Word order in Egyptian Arabic / Malcolm Edwards -- The information structure of existential sentences in Egyptian Arabic / Mustafa Mughazy -- The pragmatics of information structure in Arabic / Mohammed Farghal -- From complementizer to discourse marker / Marie Aimée Germanos -- The (absence of) prosodic reflexes of given/new information status in Egyptian Arabic / Sam Hellmuth -- Moroccan Arabic-French codeswitching and information structure / Karima Ziamari -- Conversation markers in Arabic-Hausa codeswitching / Jonathan Owens, Jidda Hassan -- Understatement, euphemism, and circumlocution in Egyptian Arabic / David Wilmsen.
650 0 $aArabic language$xSpoken Arabic.
650 0 $aArabic language$xDiscourse analysis.
650 0 $aPragmatics.
650 0 $aCode switching (Linguistics)
700 1 $aOwens, Jonathan.
700 1 $aElgibali, Alaa.