Arabic has been traditionally described in terms of diglossia: two distinct levels of the same language, an upper, written, formal one (Classical\/Standard Arabic) and a lower, oral, informal one (different varieties of spoken Arabic, so-called Arabic dialects) are mixed by speakers through code-switching or code-mixing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The project aims to create a lexicographic resource for Contemporary Written Arabic (CWA)<\/strong>, which will take into account materials whose features are found in real-world Arabic written texts, regardless of a preliminary classification on the basis of their linguistic nature. Thus, a novel theoretic approach is provided that overcomes the traditional description of the Arabic linguistic system in terms of diglossia, and interpretes Arabic as one linguistic complex<\/strong>. A final proof-of-concept model will be produced, which aims to be the first large-scale, validated resource on CWA that provides objective and substantial data to test competing theories on the linguistic status of Arabic language, and to prove the model extensibility to a fuller coverage of CWA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The novel approach would allow Arabic to be analysed in the same way as other languages have been for some decades within the corpus linguistics tradition, namely as a language whose lexicon (and grammar) can be described variety-neutrally upon analysis of a representative corpus of the language which is defined according to a series of external, objective criteria (such as timespan, genres, areas). <\/p>\n\n\n\n The resulting design of the lexical resource will encourage new approaches in terms of Arabic language teaching and learning, overcoming the long-standing diglossia issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arabic has been traditionally described in terms of diglossia: two distinct levels of the same language, an upper, written, formal…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14228,"template":"","tag-sottositi":[45],"acf":{"type_of_project":"3","acronym":"CWALM","title":"A lexical corpus-based model of Contemporary Written Arabic","funding_body":"MUR","funding_programme":"PRIN 2020 \u2013 SH4","grant_agreement":"B57G22000800006 (Prot. 20204EJYRX)","start_date":"20220601","end_date":"20250531","role":"Beneficiary","project_coordinator":"Roma Tre University ","project_chair":[{"person":"Giuliano Lancioni"}],"ilc_research_un":[{"person":"Ouafae Nahli "}],"programme_coord":"","contact_person":"","staff":[{"person":"Paola Baroni"},{"person":"Andrea Bellandi"},{"person":"Giulia Benotto"},{"person":"Elisa Gugliotta "},{"person":"Nadia Khlif"},{"person":"Noemi Terreni"}],"documentation":null,"websites":[{"website":"https:\/\/cwalm.ilc.cnr.it"}],"nid":"","lang":"","tnid":""},"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CWALM_PictogramLogotype.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/progetti\/12719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/progetti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/progetti"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag-sottositi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilc.cnr.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag-sottositi?post=12719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}