Investigating Arabic : current parameters in analysis and learning / edited by Alaa Elgibali.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-220) and index.

Introduction / Alaa Elgibali -- Ch. 1. Breaking the rules without wanting to : hypercorrection in middle Arabic texts / Kees Versteegh -- Ch. 2. Acquisition of Arabic as a native language : implications for linguistic analysis / Alaa Elgibali -- Ch. 3. A case for an inter-Arabic grammar / Ali Farghaly -- Ch. 4. Polysemy in Arabic dialects / Zeinab Ibrahim -- Ch. 5. Weak verbs in Arabic / Abdellah Chekayri -- Ch. 6. Towards a grammar of spoken MSA : a corpus-based approach / Sameh Al-Ansary -- Ch. 7. The grammatical tradition and Arabic language teaching : a view from here / Jonathan Owens -- Ch. 8. Teaching Arabic dialectology in European universities : why, what, and how / Soha Abboud-Haggar -- Ch. 9. An error analysis of Malay students' written Arabic / Adil Elsheikh Abdalla -- Ch. 10. Verbal report data and L2 reading comprehension : the case of the think aloud technique / Mahmoud Abdalla -- Ch. 11. Contrastive analysis of the segments of French and Arabic / Daniel L. Newman.

This book offers a wide range overview of current research issues in Arabic linguistics, extending from the general to the specific. It includes in depth investigations of theoretical and applied topics that are of interest to general and Arabic linguistics: computational analysis of Arabic, Arabic dialectology, acquisition of Arabic as a native language, learning and teaching Arabic as a first or foreign language, sociolinguistic analysis of Arabic, and the status of Arabic in European academe. Despite the seeming diversity of the topics, they fall thematically into two major inter-related categories, analysis and learning. Each chapter is a thoughtful reflection of a major current trend in the study of Arabic.