The Word in Arabic

The 10 articles of this volume offer current research on the definition and use of the concept of what a "word" is in classical and current Arabic, with specific analysis of the terms kalima and za'ida, historiography of Arabic linguistics, and analysis of Arabic morphology, lexicography, and syntax. The last four articles discuss the Arabic word in contemporary linguistic theory and in contact, with individual papers on the automatic extraction of prepositions in a group of written texts and Arabic loanwords and calques in Bambara. Eight of the articles were presented in earlier form as lectures for the First Colloquium of Arabic Linguistics held at Roma Tre University in Rome, Italy in May, 2007 (where Lancioni is professor of linguistics). Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Giuliano Lancioni, Ph. D. (1995) in Linguistics, Roma Tre University, is Professor of Linguistics at Roma Tre University. He has published extensively on the history of the Arabic grammatical tradition and on Arabic generative and computational linguistics.Lidia Bettini is professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Florence. Her research interests include Arabic medieval linguistic thinking and modern Arabic Bedouin dialects. Her recent publications include the volumes Contes feminins de la Haute Jezireh syrienne – Materiaux ethno–linguistiques d’un parler nomade oriental, (Firenze, 2006) and Min sawalif al–?arim fi l–Jazira al–suriyya al–‘ulya, published by the Ministry of Culture of the Syrian Arab Republic, Damascus.