The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics

599 Pages·2017·9.04 MB·English

by  Elabbas Benmamoun (ed.)

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK
OF ARABIC LINGUISTICS
The Routledge 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.
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.

THE ROUTLEDGE
HANDBOOK OF ARABIC
LINGUISTICS
Edited by
Elabbas Benmamoun and Reem Bassiouney
First published 2018
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bassiouney, Reem, 1973– editor. | Benmamoun, Elabbas editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook of Arabic linguistics / edited by Reem
Bassiouney, Elabbas Benmamoun.
Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,
2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017032264 | ISBN 9781138783331 (hardback :
alk. paper) | ISBN 9781351377805 (pdf ) | ISBN 9781351377799 (epub) |
ISBN 9781351377782 (mobi/kindle)
Subjects: LCSH: Arabic language.
Classification: LCC PJ6073 .R68 2017 | DDC 492.7—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017032264
ISBN: 978-1-138-78333-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-14706-2 (ebk)
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CONTENTS
List of contributors ix
Abbreviations xv
Acknowledgments xviii
Introduction 1
Elabbas Benmamoun and Reem Bassiouney
PART I
Phonetics, phonology, and morphology 9
1 Arabic phonology 11
Eiman Mustafawi
2 Syllable structure in the dialects of Arabic 32
Ellen Broselow
3 Arabic pharyngeal and emphatic consonants 48
Ryan K. Shosted, Maojing Fu, and Zainab Hermes
4 Stems in Arabic morphology and phonology 62
Adamantios Gafos
PART II
Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics 87
5 The syntax of tense in Arabic 89
Hamid Ouali
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Contents
6 Negative sensitive items 104
Ahmad Alqassas
7 Resumption in varieties of Arabic 131
Lina Choueiri
8 The pragmatics-syntax division of labor: the case of personal
datives in Lebanese Arabic 155
Youssef A. Haddad
9 Arabic semantics 180
Peter Hallman
10 Issues in functional Arabic linguistics 204
Ahmed Moutaouakil
PART III
Experimental and computational approaches 225
11 The acquisition of Arabic as a first language 227
Abdulkafi Albirini
12 Neurophysiological investigations in studies of Arabic linguistics:
the case of Arabic diglossia 249
Karen Froud and Reem Khamis-Dakwar
13 Heritage Arabic speakers in the United States: a sociolinguistic profile 263
Abdulkafi Albirini
14 Experimental data and Arabic morphology 282
Ali Idrissi
15 Arabic speech and language technology 299
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Mohamed Elmahdy, and
Eiman Mustafawi
PART IV
History, contact, and variation 313
16 The earliest stages of Arabic and its linguistic classification 315
Ahmad Al-Jallad
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Contents
17 Diglossia 332
Gunvor Mejdell
18 An alternative approach: understanding diglossia/code switching
through indexicality: the case of Egypt 345
Reem Bassiouney
19 Patterns of variation and change in the Arab World 359
Ángeles Vicente
20 Social status, language, and society in the Arab World 371
Irene Theodoropoulou
21 New elaborate written forms in Darija: blogging, posting
and slamming in Morocco 387
Dominique Caubet
22 Arabic as a contact language 407
Stefano Manfredi
23 Contemporary Arabic-based pidgins in the Middle East 421
Fida Bizri
24 Linguistic anthropology approaches to Arabic 439
Becky Schulthies
25 Peripheral Arabic dialects 454
Faruk Akkuş
PART V
Ideology, policy, and education 473
26 Arab nationalism and/as language ideology 475
Keith Walters
27 Waves of Arabization and the vernaculars of North Africa: an
annotated bibliography 488
Christophe Pereira
28 The Arabic language and political ideology 504
Mariam Aboelezz
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Contents
29 Arabic political discourse 518
Emad Abdul Latif
30 Language policy and planning in Morocco: a critical approach 531
Adil Moustaoui
31 Challenges of Arabic language education policies in the Arab World 546
Muhammad Amara
32 Arabic language teachers’ conceptions of assessment and the hidden
tension between accountability and improvement in Egyptian schools 560
Atta Gebril
Index 575
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CONTRIBUTORS
Emad Abdul Latif is an Associate Professor on Rhetoric and Discourse Analysis at the Arabic
Department, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University. He studied at Cairo University in
Egypt and at Lancaster University in the UK. His research focuses on the Arab political and
religious discourses, classical rhetoric, and cross-cultural communication. His 2012 book The
Rhetoric of Liberation (in Arabic) received the Cairo International Book Fair Prize in Social
Sciences.
Mariam Aboelezz received a PhD in Linguistics from Lancaster University, where she has
taught Sociolinguistics for several years. Her research falls within the field of Arabic Socio-
linguistics, with a particular interest in the relationship between language and the political and
social structures of the Arab World. Her doctoral research studied language ideologies and
change in Egypt during a period of political unrest (2010–2014). Also a certified translator,
she is part of the translation team in the Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme at the Brit-
ish Library.
Faruk Akkuş is a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. His work
mainly focuses on typological and theoretical aspects of peripheral Arabic dialects, Turkish,
and Zazaki, with particular interest in the copula and negation. An extended version of his
master’s thesis is to be published by Brill as a monograph.
Ahmad Al-Jallad, PhD Harvard University (2012), is Assistant Professor at Leiden Univer-
sity. He has published on the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages, the history of
Arabic, and on the epigraphy of Ancient North Arabia, and is the author of An Outline of the
Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. Al-Jallad also serves as the director of the Leiden Center
for the Study of Ancient Arabia and co-directs archaeological projects in Saudi Arabia and
Jordan.
Abdulkafi Albirini is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Arabic at Utah State University,
where he also oversees the Arabic program. His broad research interests are in first, second,
and heritage language acquisition, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics. His latest
book is Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics.
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