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In:Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
Edited by Mushira Eid and Clive Holes
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 101] 1993
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 1 April 1993

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Table of contents

Forewordvii

Introduction1

I. Variation in Arabic

The use of variation: A study of the political speeches of Gamal Abd al-Nasir13

Knowing standard Arabic: testing Egyptians’ MSA abilities47

Dilworth B. Parkinson

Stability and language variation in Arabic: Cairene and Kuwaiti dialects75

The meaning of deflected/strict agreement variation in Cairene Arabic97

Emphasis spread in two Arabic dialects119

Munther A. Younes

II. Phonological perspectives

Arabic pharyngealization and phonological features149

Gemination and antigemination in Iraqi163

Millicent Winston

III. Syntactic perspectives

Arabic genitives: A problematic structure for the binding theory195

The copula in modern standard Arabic (SA)209

The position of subjects in modern Standard Arabic231

Bernadette Plunkett

Case-marking and binding of subject clitics in Arabic complement clauses261

Mark S. LeTourneau

IV. Historical perspectives

On the development of the Energic suffixes293

Early Arabic siin and šiin in light of the proto-semitic fricative-lateral hypothesis313

Henry Churchyard

Index of subjects343