Elgibali Alaa (editor). Investigating Arabic: Current Parameters in Analysis and Learning

Brill. 2005. 223 pages. ISBN: 90-04-13792-0.
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 linguistics, Arabic linguistics, and learning and teaching Arabic as a first or foreign language. Despite the diversity of the topics, they fall thematically into two major inter-related categories, analysis and learning.Breaking the Rules without Wanting to: Hypercorrection in Middle Arabic Texts.
Acquisition of Arabic as a Native Language: Implications for Linguistic Analysis.
A Case for an Inter-Arabic Grammar.
Polysemy in Arabic Dialects.
Weak Verbs in Arabic.
Towards a Grammar of Spoken MSA: A Corpus-based Approach.
The Grammatical Tradition and Arabic Language Teaching: A View from Here Teaching Arabic Dialectology in European Universities: Why, What, and How.
An Error Analysis of Malay Students’ Written Arabic.
Verbal Report Data and L2 Reading Comprehension: The Case of the Think Aloud Technique.
Contrastive Analysis of the Segments of French and Arabic.