Table of contents
AcknowledgementsVII
IntroductionIX
Part I.Sociolinguistics
Palestinian Arabic in the diaspora: Assessing the case for contact-induced change3
Dialect contact and change in the Arabic feminine ending morpheme27
Variability of nominal genitives in Casablanca Moroccan Arabic51
Part II.Phonetics and phonology
Plain-emphatic R phonemes in Arabic: More evidence for phonetics-phonology mismatches77
Some grammatical features of Faifi Arabic with a focus on emphatic fricatives99
Part III.Syntax
The imperfective verb and the progressive aspect in Arabic: Diachrony and synchrony121
Remnant-movement analysis of questions with final wh-words in Jordanian Arabic147
Part IV.First language acquisition
Tracing the acquisition of definiteness in Emirati Arabic169
Index199
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