The Utility of Arabic Corpus Linguistics

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20 - The Utility of Arabic Corpus Linguistics

from Part IV - Arabic Computational and Corpus Linguistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2021

Mai Zaki ,

David Wilmsen and

Dana Abdulrahim

Edited by

Karin Ryding and

David Wilmsen

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Karin Ryding: Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
David Wilmsen: Affiliation:
American University of Beirut

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The authors examine the application of electronically searchable corpora, from their own experience, in addressing questions pertinent to linguistics as a whole and to matters internal to Arabic, the while lamenting that the field of Arabic linguistics, in its theoretical and applied orientations alike, has not made use of the rich data source that searchable electronic corpora represent. They show how corpora can be used easily to falsify common assumptions and assertions about the human language capacity in general just as they can be used efficiently to query assumptions and assertions about Arabic itself. So, too, do they hold implications for applied uses such as teaching Arabic as a foreign language and translation between Arabic and other languages. In any of these applications, the use of corpora in the analysis of all varieties of Arabic remains underdeveloped compared to their use in the analysis of other languages, especially English.

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corpus linguistics written corpora spoken corpora computational linguistics classroom applications translation

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Information: The Cambridge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics , pp. 473 - 504

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