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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
Volume V: Ann Arbor, Michigan 1991
Editors
The papers in the first section of this volume, 'Variation in Arabic', deal with a wide range of topics: the function of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) vs. dialect variation in political speeches, patterns of variation in concord in Cairene dialect, the extent to which Cairenes 'know' MSA, and the scope of emphaticization in different dialects.
In the section on 'Phonological Perspectives' there are papers dealing with emphasis spread and with gemination/degemination/antigemination in Iraqi Arabic.
The papers in the section on syntax, all focused on MSA and within a GB framework, discuss aspects of Arabic that are problematic for current hypotheses in linguistics, and also more traditional issues such as word order and verbal vs. nominal sentences.
The last two papers represent a historical, comparative Semitic perspective: on the function of energic suffixes, and on the reconstruction of the early Arabic sounds represented by siin and šiin.
In the section on 'Phonological Perspectives' there are papers dealing with emphasis spread and with gemination/degemination/antigemination in Iraqi Arabic.
The papers in the section on syntax, all focused on MSA and within a GB framework, discuss aspects of Arabic that are problematic for current hypotheses in linguistics, and also more traditional issues such as word order and verbal vs. nominal sentences.
The last two papers represent a historical, comparative Semitic perspective: on the function of energic suffixes, and on the reconstruction of the early Arabic sounds represented by siin and šiin.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 101] 1993. viii, 347 pp.
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Published online on 18 October 2011
Published online on 18 October 2011
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Table of Contents
- Foreword | pp. vii–viii
- Introduction | pp. 1–12
- I. Variation in Arabic
- The use of variation: A study of the political speeches of Gamal Abd al-NasirClive Holes | p. 13
- Knowing standard Arabic: testing Egyptians’ MSA abilitiesDilworth B. Parkinson | p. 47
- Stability and language variation in Arabic: Cairene and Kuwaiti dialectsAlaa Elgibali | p. 75
- The meaning of deflected/strict agreement variation in Cairene ArabicR. Kirk Belnap | p. 97
- Emphasis spread in two Arabic dialectsMunther A. Younes | p. 119
- II. Phonological perspectives
- Arabic pharyngealization and phonological featuresStuart Davis | p. 149
- Gemination and antigemination in IraqiBasim Majdi and Millicent Winston | p. 163
- III. Syntactic perspectives
- Arabic genitives: A problematic structure for the binding theoryTamar Kaplan | p. 195
- The copula in modern standard Arabic (SA)Maher Bahloul | p. 209
- The position of subjects in modern Standard ArabicBernadette Plunkett | p. 231
- Case-marking and binding of subject clitics in Arabic complement clausesMark S. LeTourneau | p. 261
- IV. Historical perspectives
- On the development of the Energic suffixesDavid Testen | p. 293
- Early Arabic siin and šiin in light of the proto-semitic fricative-lateral hypothesisHenry Churchyard | p. 313
- Index of subjects | pp. 343–347
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