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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
Volume VIII: Amherst, Massachusetts 1994
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This volume includes ten papers selected from the Eighth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Masschusetts, Amherst, 1994. Six of them deal with the syntax of Arabic two with phonology, and two with variation. The topics represented in the volume include binding in Arabic, the analysis of negation and negative polarity items, pronoun doubling in codeswitching, linguistic variation and language change, voice assimilation in Arabic dialects, among others.
The volume includes contributions by the following: Mahasen Abu Mansour; Maher Bahloul; Raja Bahloul; Elabbas Benmamoun; Naomi Bolotin; Mushira Eid; Mark LeTourneau; Michael McOmber; Bernadette Plunkett; Keith Walters
The volume includes contributions by the following: Mahasen Abu Mansour; Maher Bahloul; Raja Bahloul; Elabbas Benmamoun; Naomi Bolotin; Mushira Eid; Mark LeTourneau; Michael McOmber; Bernadette Plunkett; Keith Walters
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 134] 1996. vii, 261 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 24 October 2011
Published online on 24 October 2011
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Table of Contents
- Foreword | pp. vii–7
- Introduction | pp. 1–6
- I. Syntactic Perspectives
- Things are not what they seem: Pronoun doubling in bilingual and monolingual grammarsMushira Eid | p. 7
- Extending the NegP hypothesis: Evidence from standard ArabicMaher Bahloul | p. 31
- Negative polarity and presupposition in ArabicElabbas Benmamoun | p. 47
- Negation in French and Tunesian ArabicRaja Mallek Bahloul | p. 67
- Binding in Arabic and the lexical clauseBernadette Plunkett | p. 85
- The interaction of causativity and reflexivity in derived Arabic verbsMark S. LeTourneau | p. 99
- II. Perspectives on variation
- Arabic speakers’ resetting of parametersNaomi Bolotin | p. 135
- Diglossia, linguistic variation, and language change in ArabicKeith Walters | p. 157
- III. Phonological perspectives
- Voice as aprivate feature: Asssimilation in ArabicMahasen Hasan Abu-Mansour | p. 201
- Phonemic PharyngealizationMichael L. McOmber | p. 233
- Index of Subjects | pp. 259–261
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