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.

Publishing status: Available

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

Table of Contents

Foreword | p. vii

Introduction | p. 1

I. Syntactic Perspectives

Layers in the Distribution of Arabic Adverbs and Adjectives and Their Licensing

Abdelkader Fassi Fehri | p. 9

The Unoptionality of Resumptive Pronouns: The Case of Moroccan Arabic

Abdessalam Elomari | p. 47

Gapping and VP Deletion in Moroccan Arabic

Ibtissam Kortobi | p. 65

Implicit Reciprocals in Standard Arabic

Mark S. LeTourneau | p. 91

II. Phonological Perspectives

Gradient Uvularization Spread in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic

Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh | p. 117

Optimized Postvelar Harmony in Palestinian Arabic

Kimary N. Shahin | p. 143

III. Perspectives on Variation

Reported Speech in Arabic Journalistic Discourse

Ahmed Fakhri | p. 167

Gender in Linguistic Variation: The Variable (q) in Damascus Arabic

Jamil Daher | p. 183

Literary Arabic and Early Hijazi: Contrasts in the Marking of Definiteness

David Testen | p. 209

Index of Subjects | p. 226

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