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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
Volume I: Salt Lake City, Utah 1987
Editor
This volume provides a general perspective on aspects of Arabic in relation to various areas of linguistics. To the general linguist, it is a source of information and data on Arabic analyzed within current models of analysis; to the Arabic linguist, it provides current analyses of both familiar and new data. The book is divided into three sections, which contain exciting papers on Arabic syntax (mostly within Government-Binding theory), textual analysis, and psycholinguistics. The volume opens with an overview of the current state of Arabic linguistics by the Editor and a major presentation by Charles Ferguson.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 63] 1990. xiii, 293 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 10 October 2011
Published online on 10 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. ix–xiii
- 1. Overview
- Arabic linguistics: The current sceneMushira Eid | pp. 3–37
- “Come forth with a Surah like it”: Arabic as a measure of Arab societyCharles A. Ferguson | pp. 39–51
- 2. Grammatical prespectives
- Sound plural and broken plural assignment in classical ArabicMohamad Z. Abd-Rabbo | pp. 55–93
- The problem of subject-verb agreement in Arabic: towards a solutionMohammad A. Mohammad | pp. 95–125
- Word order and proper government in classical ArabicBasim Majdi | pp. 127–153
- Bound anaphora in Egyptian ArabicMariam H. Osman | pp. 155–172
- Time reference, tense, and formal aspect in Cairene ArabicJohn C. Eisele | pp. 173–212
- 3. Textual analysis perspectives
- ‘Orality’ and discourse structure in modern standard ArabicBarbara Johnstone | pp. 215–233
- Loss of nominal case endings in the modern Arabic dialects: evidence from Palestinian Christian middle Arabic textsAnn M. Gruber-Miller | pp. 235–253
- 4. Psycholinguistic perspectives
- Bilingual linguistic memoryShadia A. Tel | pp. 257–270
- Slips of the tongue in ArabicSabah Safi-Stagni | pp. 271–290
- Index of subjects | pp. 291–293