Lecture 1: Introduction to Linguistics; general discussion of Arabic-related issues. Administriva.

Lecture 2: Arabic as a Semitic language. The debate around الإعراب

Lecture 3: History of Arabic cont.

Lecture 4: The emergence of MSA; Ferguson’s 1959 Diglossia.

Lecture 5: Badawi’s 1973 model of diglossia. Also: Lexical, grammatical, and stylistic features of Media Arabic in the modern age.

Lecture 6: Intro to phonetics: Arabic consonants and vowels.

Lecture 7: Greetings in Beirut (Germanos 2007); phonetic transcription; coarticulation processes.

Lecture 8: More on assimiliation and epenthesis. Syllable structure. Stress placement in Egyptian Arabic. Discussion of the Ayari and Ryding’s articles.

Lecture 9: The phonology of the Arabic dialects.

Lecture 10: Movie Screening

Lecture 11: Bilingualism Colloqium

Lecture 12: Cancelled

Lecture 13: Intro to morphology

Lecture 14: Vert patterns — Morphology of the dialects

Lecture 15: Diglossia on TV — Arabic noun morphology

Lecture 16: Diglossia in TV commercials — Arabic noun morphology cont.

Lecture 17: Diglossia and dubbing foreign movies — Also Adjectives and pronouns

Lecture 18: Presentations on the morphology of adopted dialects

Lecture 19: Presentations and discussion of articles

Lecture 20: Language and gender

Lecture 21: Syntax. Also code-switching and Arabic in the diaspora.

Lecture 22: Linguistic analysis of dialectal Arabic texts. Also: Diglossic code-switching.

Lecture 23: Research paper presentations I

Lecture 24: Research paper presentations II