Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XXI : papers from the twenty-first annual symposium on Arabic linguistics, Provo, Utah, March 2007 / edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXI; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Editorial note; Introduction; ORTHOGRAPHIC UNICODE VARIATIONS IN ARABIC; TOWARD AN LFG ACCOUNT OF AGREEMENT MISMATCHES OF NUMERALS WITHIN ARABIC NPS; A TEXT-PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO MOOT QUESTIONS IN ARABIC; THE PRAGMATICS OF DENIAL; YA?NI; CITATIONS IN ARABIC LEGAL OPINION; LANGUAGE POLICY AND FACTORS INFLUENCING IT IN SOME MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES AND MOROCCO; THE PERCEPTION OF ARAB-ACCENTED SPEECH BY AMERICAN NATIVE SPEAKERS AND NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS FROM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA.

This volume contains a selection of reviewed and revised papers from the twenty-first Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, which was held on March 2-3, 2007, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The papers in this volume deal with a variety of topics in Arabic linguistics with a notable number of them emphasizing pragmatic aspects. The papers here included place a high value on the presentation of authentic data and explore different approaches in their analysis.

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