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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume IV: Detroit, Michigan 1990

By Mushira Eid , John McCarthy (Eds.) , Ellen Broselow

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1992
ISBN
9027235821, 9789027235824
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (23107970 bytes)
Series
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 85
Pages
290\291
Time added
2014-05-27 12:06:02

Description

This volume includes papers on the study of Arabic dialects and their implications for general linguistics (Section I), as well of papers of a more general nature (Sections II and III). Because the Arabic dialects are similar in many ways, a study of their differences can help isolate precisely the range of permissible interlinguistic variation (i.e. the “parameters” of universal grammar). A number of papers in Section I focus on the contribution of dialect studies to a theory of crossdialectal and crosslinguistic variation; others focus on individual dialects, thus providing data and analyses that can further contribute to our understanding of this type of variation. The papers in Sections II and III of the volume are selected from the general session of the symposium and address sociolinguistic and historical aspects of Arabic, respectively.

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