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- Knudsen, Ebbe Egede, et al.
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Neologisms in Modern Literary Syriac
- 2018
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book is the culmination of the Turabdin Project which goal is to monitor the development of Modern Literary Syriac essentially from the 1980s to the present. As a Scandinavian project, the majority of the data consists of literature written and published in Sweden. The approach is descriptive and contrastive relative to the Classical language, significant differences between Modern Literary Syriac and Classical Syriac are noted. The main focus is on neologisms and new developments in the lexicon.The present volume is subdivided into two parts. Part One, Context and Analysis, places the collected Modern Literary Syriac neologisms in their sociolinguistic context and presents an analysis of the most prominent features that characterise the data. Part Two, Glossary of Neologisms, consists of the list of neologisms collected, presenting the meaning of the entries, as deduced from their context, as well as proposed etymologies, their relationship to Classical Syriac, attestations in the sources, synonyms in Modern Literary Syriac when available in the data, and other relevant information. Finally, an Index of English Terms and Expressions is appended to the end of the book. Here the English translations of the neologisms discussed in the present volume are listed.
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- Wardini, Elie, 1961-
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Arabic Computational Linguistics : Potential, Pitfalls and Challenges
- 2022
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Ingår i: Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030901370 - 9783030901387 ; , s. 105-117
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Arabic computational linguistics though still relatively new is gaining pace rapidly. While the development of tools for computational linguistics in many languages has come a very long way, and progress has been achieved in creating tools for Arabic, Arabic computational linguistics are in need of much attention. It is not obvious that tools developed for, let us say, English will only need minor modifications before they can be applied to Arabic. Computational tools developed for English rely heavily on enormous work achieved in English linguistics in general, and corpus linguistics more particularly. If Arabic computational linguistics is to achieve its potential, it needs to mirror the hard work done in other languages. Researchers in Arabic computational linguistics should also fully understand the nature of the data they are working with. The present article is not a review of the field, but rather a discussion on the potential, pitfalls, and challenges of Arabic computational linguistics. We will discuss the potential of what research in this field can contribute to linguistic and pedagogical research on Arabic, we will also discuss issues related to defining what ‘Arabic (language)’ is from a linguistic point of view, the nature of the Arabic script, transcription and transliteration, and finally corpus building.
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- Wardini, Elie, 1961-
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Arabic in Stockholm : Practice and Perception among Second Generation Young Heritage Speakers
- 2017
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Ingår i: Öst är väst och väst är öst. - Lund : Portlak. - 9789163930669 ; , s. 113-133
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Arabic is probably the largest non-native language in Sweden. Yet very little research is conducted on the language practices and attitudes among Arabic heritage speakers. The present paper explores, based on responses to a questionnaire, the practices and attitudes of 25 young second generation speakers of Arabic, born in Sweden yet whose parents were born in an Arabic speaking country. The picture that emerges is complex. With the exception of identity, where a large majority view Arabic as a positive factor, the picture is mixed. Arabic seems to have relatively little impact on the lives of the respondents, with no clearly positive or negative tendencies. One factor seems to be the exception, Arabic in Swedish schools is generally viewed negatively.
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- Wardini, Elie, 1961-
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Lebanon
- 2015
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The chapter presents a discussion on the language landscape in contemporary Lebanon.
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- Wardini, Elie, 1961-
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Some aspects of Aramaic as attested in Lebanese place names
- 2012
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Ingår i: Orientalia Suecana. - Uppsala. - 0078-6578 .- 2001-7324. ; 61 Suppl., s. 21-29
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Place names are one of the few sources of information about the Aramaic used in the region of Lebanon for more than two millennia. Therefore a comparative and diachronic study of Lebanese place names is of the utmost importance. The present study is based on a sample of 1724 place names from the regions of Mount Lebanon and North Lebanon. Four features of Aramaic as attested in place names are discussed briefly: two from phonology and two from morphology. The preliminary conclusion one can arrive at is that the Aramaic used in Lebanon is clearly, and as expected, of the Western type. It has a complex development which in some cases is parallel to, yet often distinct from, the development of its Modern West Aramaic cousins
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- Wardini, Elie, 1961-
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The Quran : In Transcription
- 2020
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim with the present volume, The Quran: In Transcription, is to make the Quran available in a scientific transcription. The present transcription is not meant to replace the Arabic text in the Arabic script. The Arabic script as well as the Arabic orthography in themselves contain much valuable information for any scholar or reader. This book is rather to be seen as an aid for those who do not master the intricacies of the Arabic script, or those who need access to a scientific transcription. As with any transcription or reading, the present book represents the transcriber’s own interpretation of the Arabic script, grammar and text of the Quran.
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- Wardini, Elie, 1961-
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The Quran: Key Word Collocations (Volume 2) : Adjectives, Nouns, Proper Nouns And Verbs
- 2021
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim with the present series, The Quran: Key Word Collocations is to present the Quran as raw data with as little interpretation as possible. The digital text used for this purpose is the Uthmani text of the Tanzil Quran Text. In the present series, Collocation is defined as a Key Word, here adjectives, nouns, proper nouns and verbs, forming the center of a cluster with four co-occurring Key Words (1° and 2° of proximity), the first two to the left and to the right, where available. Every Collocation of each Key Word in the Quran is presented in context, as a rule with six words to the right and six to the left of it, where available or where the formatting permits. The central Key Words have been grouped by root > lemma. Classical dictionaries and Quran commentaries, as well as modern Quran dictionaries have been consulted.
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