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Informationen zum Autor Tony McEnery is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is Editor of the journal Corpora. Andrew Hardie is Research Fellow, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University. Nagwa Younis is Head of the Department of English, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University, Egypt Klappentext Arabic Corpus LinguisticsEdited by Tony McEnery, Andrew Hardie and Nagwa Ibrahim Abdel-Fattah YounisHeadline: An overview of current research on the Arabic language in corpus linguistics.This book demonstrates the advantage of a corpus-based approach to Arabic, and presents an overview of current research on the Arabic language within corpus linguistics. Dealing not only with Modern Standard Arabic, this book also considers Classical and Colloquial forms.With a range of international contributors presenting their experience of working with Arabic from a particular perspective, the book includes chapters on corpus building, the tools needed to explore the Arabic language, the use of corpora to explore the grammar of Arabic, and looking at the study of discourse in Arabic. Key Features:Takes a perspective-based approach to the practice of corpus-based research, covering corpus building and the use of corpus-query software tools to explore the Arabic language.Presents detailed case studies of the application of methods to studies in Arabic grammar and Arabic discourse semantics.Tony McEnery is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster UniversityAndrew Hardie is Reader in Linguistics at Lancaster UniversityNagwa Younis is Head of the Department of English, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University, Egypt Zusammenfassung This book demonstrates the advantage of a corpus based approach to Arabic, and presents an overview of current research on the Arabic language within corpus linguistics. Dealing not only with modern standard Arabic, the book also considers classical and colloquial forms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Author bios; Chapter 1: Introducing Arabic Corpus Linguistics, Tony McEnery, Andrew Hardie and Nagwa Younis; Chapter 2: Under the Hood of arabiCorpus, Dilworth B. Parkinson; Chapter 3: Tunisian Arabic Corpus: Creating a written corpus of an "unwritten" language , Karen McNeil; Chapter 4: Accessible corpus annotation for Arabic, Wesam Ibrahim and Andrew Hardie; Chapter 5: The Leeds Arabic Discourse Treebank: Guidelines for Annotating Discourse Connectives and Relations, Amal Alsaif and Katja Markert; Chapter 6: Using the Web to model Modern and Qur¿anic Arabic, Eric Atwell; Chapter 7: Semantic prosody as a tool for translating prepositions in the Holy Qur¿an: a corpus-based analysis, Nagwa Younis; Chapter 8: A relational approach to modern literary Arabic conditional clauses, Manuel Sartori; Chapter 9: Quantitative approaches to analysing COME constructions in Modern Standard Arabic, Dana Abdulrahim; Chapter 10: Approaching text typology through cluster analysis in Arabic, Ghada Mohamed and Andrew Hardie; Appendix: Arabic transliteration systems used in this book...
