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

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Linguistics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2012

Author dc:creator

• Moshref, Ola

Contributors dc:contributor

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

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

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2012 Ola Moshref

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/31159

OAI record oai:identifier

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=etdms&identifier=oai%3Awww.ideals.illinois.edu%3A2142%2F31159