Incomplete as it is, I thought this might be helpful to someone in its current form. I always got annoyed that I couldn't find a complete bibliography for each dialect of Arabic—so I tried to make one. Some caveats: 1. To be exhaustive, I've included books and articles in languages I don't speak or read. Anything not in English is labelled. 2. The dialect groupings here are anything but a statement. They are impressionistic and based on what I know about Arabic so far. 3. Not everything is peer-reviewed. Where useful or interesting, I've included theses and pedagogical works. 4. I study Gulf Arabic, so that is the only section that I can say is more or less exhaustive.
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This paper is concerned with the process of language change whereby lexical items and constructions, in specific contexts, come to serve new grammatical functions. Emirati Arabic provides us with a wide range of grammaticalization phenomena. The aim of this paper is twofold: to shed light on the basic concepts relating to grammaticaliza-tion phenomena and to examine the grammaticalization of a number of constructions in Emirati Arabic, investigating their formation and the changes in their functions. The development of these grammatical constructions follows a grammaticalization pathway identified for a wide range of linguistic items cross-linguistically. Résumé Cet article s'intéresse au processus du changement de la langue dans laquelle des élé-ments et des constructions lexicales, dans des contextes spécifiques, viennent assu-rer de nouvelles fonctions grammaticales. L'arabe émirati nous offre un large éventail. I would like to thank the audience for their comments and suggestions. I am also extremely grateful for the insightful comments of three anonymous reviewers whose input has greatly improved this paper. Needless to say, all remaining errors and shortcomings are my own responsibility.
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In this paper, innovative experiments were done to improve the Language Models (LMs) for three parallel dialects. In each dialect, two different LMs were produced: a closed domain LM and an open domain LM. The methodology of the second part of the multi dialect morphology analyser, involved retrieval of web frequencies for different parts of a word; this methodology was modified and then used to extract the three suggested forms of the word; stem alone, prefix+stem and stem+suffix. Six results were then extracted per dialect, giving a total of eighteen results. All the experiments yielded positive results, between 0.5% to 6.8% in WERs.
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