Arabic Language and Linguistics

Reem Bassiouney is an associate professor of Arabic linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of Arabic Sociolinguistics: Topics in Diglossia, Gender, Identity, and Politics. E. Graham Katz is an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University.

• PrefaceTransliteration conventionsIntroduction Part I: Theoretical and Computational Linguistics 1. Negation in Moroccan Arabic: Scope and FocusNizha Chatar-Moumni 2. On the Syntax and Semantics of Arabic Universal QuantificationKamel A. Elsaadany and Salwa Muhammed Shams 3. Statistical and Symbolic Paradigms in Arabic Computational LinguisticsAli Farghaly 4. Raising in Standard Arabic: Backward, Forward, and NoneYoussef A. Haddad 5. Construct State Nominals as Semantic PredicatesSarah Ouwayda 6. On Licensing Wh-Scope: Wh-Questions in Egyptian Arabic RevisitedUsama Soltan 7. The Notion of 'Complete' and 'Incomplete' Verbs in Early Arabic Grammatical Theory: K na and Its SistersHana ZabarahPart II: Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics8. Women and Politeness on Egyptian Talk ShowsReem Bassiouney9. Bonjour, ca va ? Labas ale-ik? French and Arabic in CasablancaElena Canna 10. Nominalization in Arabic Discourse: A Genre Analysis PerspectiveAhmed Fakhri 11. The Elusiveness of Lu a Wust -or, Attempting to Catch Its "True Nature"Gunvor Mejdell12. Mexicans Speaking in Darija (Moroccan Arabic): Media, Urbanization, and Language Changes in MoroccoCatherine Miller13. Critical Languages and Critical Thinking: Reframing Academic Arabic ProgramsKarin Christina Ryding14. Ideology and the Standardization of ArabicYasir Suleiman15. The Ditransitive Dative Divide in Arabic: Grammaticality Assessments and ActualityDavid Wilmsen

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