Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII
Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 2019
Editors
This volume features eight peer-reviewed chapters based on papers presented at the 33rd Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Toronto in 2019. The chapters are divided into four sections: sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology, syntax, and first language acquisition. They present research on relatively well-studied Arabic varieties such as the Moroccan, Jordanian, and Emirati varieties as well as understudied varieties such as the Palestinian dialects of Gaza and Jaffa, and the Saudi dialects of Al-Ahsa, Ha’il, and Faifi. The chapters address linguistic phenomena that range from language variation and change, the phonemic status and feature composition of rhotics, and the realization patterns of emphatic fricatives to the grammaticalization of aspectual markers, the syntactic and pragmatic aspects of post-wh-questions, and the acquisition trajectory of the definite article. The volume makes valuable descriptive and theoretical contributions to Arabic linguistics.
[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 11] 2022. xvi, 201 pp.
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© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
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IntroductionAbdel-Khalig Ali and Atiqa Hachimi | pp. ix–xvi
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Part I. Sociolinguistics
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Palestinian Arabic in the diaspora: Assessing the case for contact-induced changeYasmine Abou Taha and Stephen Levey | pp. 3–26
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Dialect contact and change in the Arabic feminine ending morphemeUri Horesh, Enam Al-Wer, Deema AlAmmar and Moayyad Al-Bohnayyah | pp. 27–50
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Variability of nominal genitives in Casablanca Moroccan ArabicRobert Prazeres | pp. 51–74
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Part II. Phonetics and phonology
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Plain-emphatic R phonemes in Arabic: More evidence for phonetics-phonology mismatchesIslam Youssef | pp. 77–98
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Some grammatical features of Faifi Arabic with a focus on emphatic fricativesAbdullah Alfaifi and Stuart Davis | pp. 99–118
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Part III. Syntax
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The imperfective verb and the progressive aspect in Arabic: Diachrony and synchronyHamid Ouali | pp. 121–146
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Remnant-movement analysis of questions with final wh-words in Jordanian ArabicMarwan Jarrah and Ekab Al-Shawashreh | pp. 147–166
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Part IV. First language acquisition
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Tracing the acquisition of definiteness in Emirati ArabicDimitrios Ntelitheos | pp. 169–198
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Index | pp. 199–201
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF/2CSR: Linguistics/Arabic
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General