John McCarthy

List of John Benjamins publications in which John McCarthy is involved.

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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume IV: Detroit, Michigan 1990

Edited by Ellen Broselow, Mushira Eid and John McCarthy

This volume includes papers on the study of Arabic dialects and their implications for general linguistics (Section I), as well of papers of a more general nature (Sections II and III). Because the Arabic dialects are similar in many ways, a study of their differences can help isolate precisely the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 85] 1992. viii, 282 pp.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume II: Salt Lake City, Utah 1988

Edited by Mushira Eid and John McCarthy

The papers in this volume approach the study of Arabic, its structure and use, from different linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. The book is divided into three sections: Section I Morphological and Phonological Perspectives; Section II Semantic Perspectives; Section III Sociolinguistic… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 72] 1990. xiv, 332 pp.

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McCarthy, John 2019 How to delete Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXX: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics, Stony Brook, New York, 2016 and Norman, Oklahoma, 2017, Khalfaoui, Amel and Matthew A. Tucker (eds.), pp. 7–32 | Chapter

Using data from Arabic and other languages, this chapter argues that segmental deletion processes are gradual in the sense that segments are lost through attrition rather than all at once. The argument is framed within Harmonic Serialism, a derivational version of Optimality Theory that allows… read more

McCarthy, John 1991 Guttural Phonology Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Comrie, Bernard and Mushira Eid (eds.), pp. 63–92 | Article

Eid, Mushira and John McCarthy 1990 Introduction Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Eid, Mushira and John McCarthy (eds.), pp. xi–xiv | Miscellaneous

McCarthy, John and Alan Prince 1990 Prosodic Morphology and Templatic Morphology Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Eid, Mushira and John McCarthy (eds.), pp. 1–54 | Article