Corpus study of tense, aspect, and modality in diglossic speech in Cairene Arabic

Moshref, Ola

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Title

Corpus study of tense, aspect, and modality in diglossic speech in Cairene Arabic

Author(s)

Moshref, Ola

Issue Date

2012-05-22T00:32:14Z

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Benmamoun, Elabbas

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Benmamoun, Elabbas

Committee Member(s)

• Bokamba, Eyamba G.
• Bhatt, Rakesh M.
• Terkourafi, Marina

Department of Study

Linguistics

Discipline

Linguistics

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

• Codeswitching
• Modern Standard Arabic
• Egyptian Colloquial Arabic
• Cairene Arabic
• Tense
• Aspect
• Modality
• Morphosyntax
• Sociolinguistics

Abstract

Morpho-syntactic features of Modern Standard Arabic mix intricately with those of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic in ordinary speech. I study the lexical, phonological and syntactic features of verb phrase morphemes and constituents in different tenses, aspects, moods. A corpus of over 3000 phrases was collected from religious, political/economic and sports interviews on four Egyptian satellite TV channels. The computational analysis of the data shows that systematic and content morphemes from both varieties of Arabic combine in principled ways. Syntactic considerations play a critical role with regard to the frequency and direction of code-switching between the negative marker, subject, or complement on one hand and the verb on the other. Morph-syntactic constraints regulate different types of discourse but more formal topics may exhibit more mixing between Colloquial aspect or future markers and Standard verbs.

Graduation Semester

2012-05

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Copyright 2012 Ola Moshref

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