Information Structure in Spoken Arabic (Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series)

by Alaa Elgibali (Editor), JonathanOwens (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $172.35

  Explores speakers' intentions, and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ, in spoken Arabic - which is different in many essential respects from literary Arabic. This book elucidates the many ways in which context and the goals and intentions of the speaker inform and constrain linguistic structure in spoken Arabic.