Presents the research in Arabic linguistics from a theoretical point of view, including computational linguistics, syntax, semantics, and historical linguistics. This title covers sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and discourse analysis by looking at issues such as gender, urbanization, and language ideology.

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

A highly readable book, innovative in both coverage and content. Sure to be read with interest and profit by scholars of Arabic language and linguistics. -- Alison Mackey, professor and head of applied linguistics, Georgetown University One of the challenges facing today's research in Arabic linguistics is to connect with recent developments in general linguistics and sociolinguistics. In this volume, Bassiouney and Katz have brought together an impressive collection of articles that take up this challenge. -- Kees Versteegh, emeritus professor, University of Nijmegen A challenging collection of papers providing a snapshot of advanced research in various areas of contemporary Arabic linguistics by scholars in the vanguard of the field. -- Daniel Newman, professor of Arabic, University of Durham