Elabbas Benmamoun
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elabbas Benmamoun is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2212-8042
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XIX: Urbana, Illinois, April 2005
Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun
This volume offers a selection from the papers presented at the 2005 Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The papers cover a variety of topics in Arabic Linguistics, ranging from the lexicon, phonology, syntax and computational linguistics. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 289] 2007. xiv, 304 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVII–XVIII: Alexandria, 2003 and Norman, Oklahoma 2004
Edited by Mohammad T. Alhawary and Elabbas Benmamoun
The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics, held in 2003 (Alexandria) and 2004 (Oklahoma). They tackle a broad range of issues in current linguistic research, particularly in the areas of phonology, morphology/lexicon,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 267] 2005. xvi, 315 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XIII-XIV: Stanford, 1999 and Berkeley, California 2000
Edited by Dilworth B. Parkinson and Elabbas Benmamoun
The papers in this collection derive from the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics held in Stanford (1999) and Berkeley (2000). The selection is noteworthy for its diversity of approach, and for a noticeable broadening of the kinds of questions that are being asked and the kind of data being… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 230] 2002. xiv, 250 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XII: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1998
Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun
The papers in this volume deal with various topics in Arabic Linguistics. Most of the papers focus on new issues and introduce new empirical generalizations that haven't been studied before within the context of Arabic linguistics. The syntax and morphosyntax papers explore issues ranging from the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 190] 1999. vii, 204 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XI: Atlanta, Georgia, 1997
Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun, Mushira Eid and Niloofar Haeri
The papers in this volume address core areas in contemporary Arabic linguistics: syntax, phonology, and variation studies. The papers in the syntax sections address different topics from the perspective of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995) and subsequent work. The topics in this section are… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 167] 1998. viii, 231 pp.
2018 Syntactic outcomes of contact in Sason Arabic Arabic in Contact, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 37–52 | Chapter
In this paper, we discuss a number of morphosyntactic properties of Sason Arabic, which could be strongly argued to be due to contact with the neighboring languages, some of which have head-final properties. We argue that Sason Arabic patterns with both its Arabic neighbors and the typologically… read more
2016 Quantifying lexical and pronunciation variation between three Arabic varieties* Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013, Davis, Stuart and Usama Soltan (eds.), pp. 187–212 | Article
This paper reports on computational measures of linguistic variation that quantify the lexical and pronunciation variation between three varieties of Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, and Gulf Arabic. We provide three measures of linguistic variation; all computed based on elicitation of… read more
2016 Clause structure in contact contexts: The case of Sason Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Gainesville, Florida, 2014, Haddad, Youssef A. and Eric Potsdam (eds.), pp. 153–172 | Article
In this paper, we discuss the syntax of negation in Sason Arabic which patterns with both its Arabic neighbors, particularly the so-called Mesopotamian varieties (such as the Iraqi variety/varieties of Mosul) and the neighboring languages that are typologically different, particularly Kurdish and… read more
2016 Verbal and nominal plurals and the syntaxmorphology interface Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013, Davis, Stuart and Usama Soltan (eds.), pp. 59–74 | Article
One of the assumptions of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky, 1995, and subsequent work within the program) is the idea that (narrow) syntactic derivations are driven by the interaction between formal features. However, one key aspect of formal features that drives their syntactic activity is the lack… read more
2014 Negation and the subject position
in San’ani Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. New York, 2012, Khamis, Reem and Karen Froud (eds.), pp. 75–90 | Article
In this paper, we discuss a topic that has not received extensive attention within the lively debate about the syntax of sentential negation in Arabic varieties. The topic concerns the interaction between the subject of the sentence, particularly the pronominal subject, and the sentential negative.… read more
2014
This study investigates heritage speakers’ knowledge of plural formation in their colloquial varieties of Arabic, which use both concatenative and non-concatentative modes of derivation. In the concatenative derivation, a plural suffix attaches to the singular stem (muhandis ‘engineer-sg.’ →… read more
2014 Variations on the same theme: Sentential negation and the negative copula
in Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV–XXV: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics. Texas, 2010 and Arizona, 2011, Farwaneh, Samira and Hamid Ouali (eds.), pp. 121–138 | Article
The main aim of this paper is to provide both synchronic and diachronic evidence that Standard Arabic and the spoken dialects pattern the same way with regard to the syntactic mechanisms that govern the relationship between lexical categories and functional categories. The focus is on sentential… read more
2009 Closest conjunct agreement in head final languages Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2009, van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen (ed.), pp. 67–88 | Article
We discuss the phenomenon of closest conjunct agreement with a special focus on head-final languages; we present data from two such languages, Hindi and Tsez, which allow agreement with the rightmost conjunct when the verb follows the conjoined phrase. This contrasts with head-initial languages,… read more
2007 Preface Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Benmamoun, Elabbas (ed.), pp. ix–xiv | Preface
2005 Introduction Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics, Alhawary, Mohammad T. and Elabbas Benmamoun (eds.), pp. ix–xv | Miscellaneous
2003 5. The role of the imperfective template in Arabic morphology Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-Based, Morphology, Shimron, Joseph (ed.), pp. 99–114 | Chapter
2003 Reciprocals as plurals in Arabic Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000, Lecarme, Jacqueline (ed.), pp. 53–62 | Article
2000 Agreement Asymmetries and the PF Interface Research in Afroasiatic Grammar: Papers from the Third conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis, 1996, Lecarme, Jacqueline, Jean Lowenstamm and Ur Shlonsky (eds.), pp. 23–40 | Article
1996 Negative polarity and presupposition in Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Eid, Mushira (ed.), pp. 47–66 | Article
1996 The Derivation of the Imperative in Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Eid, Mushira and Dilworth B. Parkinson (eds.), pp. 151–166 | Article
1991 Causatives in Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Comrie, Bernard and Mushira Eid (eds.), pp. 173–198 | Article