Università Roma Tre

The course will discuss subject matters about understanding variation in the Arabic linguistic system and will address issues about diglossia, multiglossia and "Arabic as one" models

Al-Batal, M. (Ed.), 2018. Arabic as one language: integrating dialect in the Arabic language curriculum. Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC.

Ferguson, C.A., 1959. Diglossia. Word 15, 325–340.

Hary. “The Importance of the Language Continuum in Arabic Multiglossia,” Understanding Arabic: Essays in Contemporary Arabic Linguistics in Honor of El‐Said Badawi, A. Elgibali [ed.], Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1996. 69–90.

Lancioni, G., 2014. VS/SV Order in Spoken Arabic: A Categorial Grammar Account, in: Durand, O., Langone, A.D., Mion, G. (Eds.), Alf Lahǧa Wa Lahǧa: Proceedings of the 9th Aida Conference, Neue Beihefte Zur Wiener Zeitschrift Für Die Kunde Des Morgenlandes. Lit, Wien, pp. 225–236.

Lancioni, G., Solimando, C., 2018. Didattica dell’arabo e certificazione linguistica: riflessioni e iniziative. RomaTre Press, Roma.