Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics

Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics

Volume VIII: Amherst, Massachusetts 1994

Editor

Mushira Eid | The University of Utah, Salt Lake City

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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

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 134] 1996. vii, 261 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.134

Table of Contents

Foreword | p. vii

Introduction | p. 1

I. Syntactic Perspectives

Things are not what they seem: Pronoun doubling in bilingual and monolingual grammars

Mushira Eid | p. 7

Extending the NegP hypothesis: Evidence from standard Arabic

Maher Bahloul | p. 31

Negative polarity and presupposition in Arabic

Elabbas Benmamoun | p. 47

Negation in French and Tunesian Arabic

Raja Mallek Bahloul | p. 67

Binding in Arabic and the lexical clause

Bernadette Plunkett | p. 85

The interaction of causativity and reflexivity in derived Arabic verbs

Mark S. LeTourneau | p. 99

II. Perspectives on variation

Arabic speakers’ resetting of parameters

Naomi Bolotin | p. 135

Diglossia, linguistic variation, and language change in Arabic

Keith Walters | p. 157

III. Phonological perspectives

Voice as aprivate feature: Asssimilation in Arabic

Mahasen Hasan Abu-Mansour | p. 201

Phonemic Pharyngealization

Michael L. McOmber | p. 233

Index of Subjects | p. 259

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