Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics

Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics

Volume XI: Atlanta, Georgia, 1997

Editors

Elabbas Benmamoun

| University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Mushira Eid

| The University of Utah

Niloofar Haeri

| John Hopkins University

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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 adverbs and adjectives, resumptive pronouns, gapping and VP deletion, and the morphosyntax of reciprocals. The phonology section consists of a contribution on coarticulation effects of uvular(ized) segments, and of a paper on pharyngealization and uvularization within the framework of Optimality Theory. The sociolinguistics papers in the third section of the volume represent three important lines of inquiry: discourse level variation, stylistic variation, and diachronic variation.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 167] 1998. viii, 231 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.167

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Introduction	1
I. Syntactic Perspectives
Layers in the Distribution of Arabic Adverbs and Adjectives and Their Licensing Abdelkader Fassi Fehri	9
The Unoptionality of Resumptive Pronouns: The Case of Moroccan Arabic Abdessalam Elomari	47
Gapping and VP Deletion in Moroccan Arabic Ibtissam Kortobi	65
Implicit Reciprocals in Standard Arabic Mark S. LeTourneau	91
II. Phonological Perspectives
Gradient Uvularization Spread in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh	117
Optimized Postvelar Harmony in Palestinian Arabic Kimary N. Shahin	143
III. Perspectives on Variation
Reported Speech in Arabic Journalistic Discourse Ahmed Fakhri	167
Gender in Linguistic Variation: The Variable (q) in Damascus Arabic Jamil Daher	183
Literary Arabic and Early Hijazi: Contrasts in the Marking of Definiteness David Testen	209
Index of Subjects	226

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Subjects

Linguistics

Syntax

Generative linguistics

Phonology

Afro-Asiatic languages

Discourse studies

Pragmatics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 91641663