Computerized Study of Modern Literary Arabic Syntax

FAIN: RO-11233-72

Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1015)
Ernest N. McCarus (Project Director: June 1972 to present)

To produce a book containing an analytic description of all the syntactic structures (clause-level and phrase leve) of post World War II Literary Arabic prose; the analysis will be based on a corpus of serveral hundred thousand words, to lend statistical validity to statements chosen form the works on a large number of writers from the Arab world who are considered to be representative of good Arabic writing.