Author: Alexander Magidow Date: 2013 Institution: University of Texas at Austin Subject:Linguistics Abstract: This dissertation establishes a framework for a reconstruction of the Arabic dialects that existed immediately prior to the Islamic conquests and tests that framework with a reconstruction based on the demonstrative pronouns and adjectives used in over sixty modern spoken dialects of Arabic dialects. The dissertation develops a framework, drawing on work in sociolinguistics, in which the unit of reconstruction is the speech community rather than the 'language' or 'dialect.' Speech communities are defined as...
Author: Nasser Berjaoui Date: 1999 Institution: Chouaib Doukkali University Subject:Linguistics Abstract: This dissertation, fully based on an extensive fieldwork of eight years, presents the rules of the Moroccan Arabic 'ghous' (a Secret Language) of the Tafilalet (South-east of Morocco) in four parts. The first part shows that the Tafilalet 'ghous' comprises four multi-faceted types, namely the Substitution-Pseudo-Suffixation, the Substitution, the Restructuration and the Inversion types, and that the variables of localization, communities, age and sex characterize each type. The second part discusses the rules in the...
Author: Abduljawad T. Mahmoud Date: 1989 Institution: Abduljawad T. Mahmoud Subject:Linguistics Linguistic Field(s): Syntax, Semantics, Morphology, Lexicography Abstract: This study presents a detailed analysis of the semantic, syntactic and morphological features of the middle and inchoative (unaccusative) alternations in Arabic and English. The issue of the middle/ unaccusative contrast and the question of whether middles constitute a semantically and syntactically uniform class are also addressed. On the basis of this analysis, a new typology of the middle and unaccusative verbs in the two languages has been proposed. In addition to the semantic properties...
Author: Ahmed Sokarno Abdel-Hafiz Date: 1988 Institution: State University of New York at Buffalo Subject:Linguistics Supervisor: Donna B. Gerdts Linguistic Field(s): Language Description Abstract: This is a grammar of Kunuz Nubian (KN), an Eastern Sudanic language spoken in Southern Egypt. It is the first grammar ever written on this language. The areas covered in the study are phonology, morphology and syntax. The chapter on phonology introduces KN phonemic inventory which is followed by the description of the syllable structure, stress, phonetactics and phonological rules. The chapter on morphology shows that the morphemes that participate in the composition of KN...
Author: Kamal-Montasser Date: 1998 Institution: McGill-University-Canada (0781) Subject:Social Sciences Language: English Abstract: This thesis contributes to knowledge in the field of medical anthropology, particularly in Egypt and the Middle East, in two specific ways. First, the thesis demonstrates how a limited focus on kinship and micro social relations precludes a full understanding of the life experiences of people, especially at times of illness. The thesis shows that these conceptual limitations stem from a romanticized view of Egyptian culture—a view that poorly corresponds to the contemporary Egyptian situation....
Author: I.H.W. Wellens Date: 2001 Institution: University of Nijmegen, Department of Arabic and Islam Studies (KUN) Subject:Linguistics Supervisor: Prof.dr. M.A. Woidich Linguistic Field(s): Education and Training Abstract: Nubi Arabic is a creolized variety of Arabic, spoken in Uganda and Kenya by appr. 50,000 speakers, one of the few documented examples of a creole language with a non-Indo-European basis. Nubi Arabic developed from a pidginized variety of Arabic, which originated in the 19th century in the camps of the Egyptian army in Upper Egypt and the Sudan. This pidgin Arabic was brought to Uganda and Kenya where it underwent a process of creolization....
Author: Gaber Gaber Date: 2012 Institution: University of Durham Subject:Linguistics Abstract: This work presents a full and unified investigation of the phenomenon of non-concatenative nominal morphology in Libyan Arabic (LA), with special reference to the formation of the broken plural (BP). The analysis provides a morphophonological account of morphologically derived words in LA. It is based on two main ideas: the first is specifying the input for the derivational morphological process which represents the underlying structure of the derived word; the second is to account for...
Author: Dr Zouhir Gabsi Date: 2005 Institution: University of Western Sydney, Australia Subject:Linguistics Linguistic Field(s): Language Description Abstract: The Tunisian Berber (or Shilha) vernaculars are among the least described Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages to this day. Although they have been provisionally assigned to the 'North-Berber' group within the Berber branch of Afroasiatic, their immediate affiliation remains an open question. The principal task of the present work will be to describe the phonology, morphology and syntax of Douiret. Less central to the aims of the study is the analysis of the basic wordstores of the...
Author: Yassine-Nahla-Abdul-Karim Date: 1999 Institution: Wayne-State-University (0254) Subject:History Language: English Abstract: This dissertation argues that Arab mediation is distinctive from mediation that occurs in countries in other parts of the world in terms of the likelihood of Arab countries choosing it as a method of conflict resolution, in terms of the manner or process by which it is conducted, and in terms of the outcomes of mediation. two clusters of independent variables are responsible for the distinctive nature of Arab mediation: those linked with Arab political...
Author: Ayman Eddakrouri Date: - Institution: - Subject:Linguistics URL: dar.aucegypt.edu/bitstream/handle/10526/4802/Ayman-%20Thesis.pdf?sequence=1 Abstract: This thesis offers a corpus-based analysis and description of two of the most frequently used words in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) in terms of their semantic values and cohesive functions, syntactic features, and idiomatic usages.