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In:Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
Edited by Ellen Broselow, Mushira Eid and John McCarthy
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 85] 1992
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 27 February 1992

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Table of contents

Forewordvii

Introduction1

I. Arabic dialects: implications for general linguistics

Parametric variation in Arabic dialect phonology7

Vowel shortening in two Arabic dialects47

Mahasen Hasan Abu-Mansour

Extra-Arabic affliations of k-Yemeni77

Shifting boundaries: the effect of MSA on dialect convergence in Baghdad91

Farida Abu-Haidar

Pronouns, Questions, and agreement107

Cariene Arabic auxiliaries and the category AUX143

II. Sociolinguistic perspectives

How different are men and women: palatalization in Cairo169

A sociolinguistic description of (u:) in korba Arabic: defining linguistic variables in contact situations and relic areas181

Code-mixing in the speech of Arabic-English bilinguals219

Ahmad A. Atawneh

III. Historical perspectives

Variable agreement with nonhuman controllers in classical and modern standard Arabic245

Morphosyntactic analysis in Al-Jumal fii l-na@w: Discourse structure and metalanguage263

Index of subjects279