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Article: The Syntax of Spoken Arabic: A Comparative Study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian and Kuwaiti Dialects. (Reviews of Books).
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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The Syntax of Spoken Arabic: A Comparative Study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian and Kuwaiti Dialects. By KRISTEN E. BRUSTAD. Washington, D.C.: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000. Pp. xvii + 442.
This book is a revised version of the author's (1991) Harvard University Ph.D. dissertation, written under the supervision of Wolfhart Heinrichs. Brustad makes it clear in her introduction (pp. 1-17) that her purpose is to compare syntactic features in four major Arabic dialects: Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian, and Kuwaiti, which certainly represent, as she claims, very diverse varieties of the language. Furthermore, she is right to point out that syntax is one of the ...