Index

• Activity condition184

• adjunct 205–224

• adjunction 205–206 ; see also merge

• AGREE 181, 183, 184, 186–188, 190–194

• agreement
  • Full agreement 181, 182, 186–196
  • Mixed agreement 182, 191, 192, 195, 196
  • Partial agreement 199–202

• atelic164

• boundary phenomena 56, 80

• Cairene Arabic 58, 132, 141, 144

• circumstantial clauses 205–220

• Classical Arabic 136, 142, 156

• color terms 130, 138, 140–143

• contrastive length78

• control 205–224
  • adjunct 205–224
  • backward215
  • copy215
  • movement approach to 215–220
  • predication approach to215
  • PRO approach to 214–215

• Coordinate structure constraint (CSC) 181, 187, 188, 189

• depharyngealization 130, 145

• depictive clauses 221–223

• Developmental indices 229, 230, 236, 243

• Egyptian Arabic 16, 17, 19, 130, 131–137, 139–147

• Emirati Arabic 229, 230, 233, 242

• enhancement69

• EPP 185, 187–190

• event 157, 158, 160, 173, 174, 221, 241

• existential closure 174, 175

• extrametrical 59, 76, 79

• final lengthening 56, 61, 68, 74, 75, 77, 78, 81, 82

• First conjunct agreement (FCA) 181–198

• Fit-Index 93, 100, 103

• focus 55, 57, 59–62, 64–81, 213

• Foot 56–59, 61, 68, 76–79, 81

• Functional Load Hypothesis 56, 60, 61, 73, 79

• Independent10

• Indexicality 8, 12

• inherent 219–220

• Language acquisition 229, 230

• Language growth 229, 230

• Late operations 182, 183, 191–196

• Lebanese Arabic (LA) 181–199

• Lebanese Arabic 205–224

• Levantine Arabic137

• Lexical diversity 230, 232, 239–240

• Licensing Condition207

• Merge
  • Pair Merge 205–206 ; see also adjunction
  • Set Merge 205–206

• MLU, Mean Length of Utterance 229, 230, 235–239

• modal 158, 160, 165

• Pair Merge 205–206 ; see also adjunction

• participle
  • active participle 147, 155–168, 171, 173, 174, 176
  • passive participle 153–158, 162–173, 176
  • adjectival participle 153–155, 162–174
  • verbal participle 153, 155, 172, 173

• passive 153, 154–157, 162–174

• Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) 89–93

• Perceptual Category Mapping 89, 93, 94

• perfect 154, 155, 157–162, 164, 166, 167, 170, 171, 174

• Performance 8, 14

• periphrastic comparative 130, 132, 134, 142, 143

• predicates
  • derived 219–220
  • inherent 219–220
  • Licensing Condition207
  • open 205, 215, 218, 219, 220
  • saturated 206–207, 218

• progressive 154, 155, 157, 158, 164, 212

• prominence 55, 56, 57, 59–63, 73, 74

• purpose clauses 221–223

• Religion 9, 10

• resumption217

• root-based 130, 146, 147

• saturated 206–207, 218

• sequence of tense161

• Set Merge 205–206

• Speech Learning Model (SLM) 89–91, 93

• Standard Arabic (SA) 9, 21, 95, 96, 161, 181, 183, 196

• state 157, 158, 159, 162, 165, 174, 175, 210, 221

• stress 55–81, 132, 136

• subject, broad213

• Sudanese Arabic (dialects of) 33, 34, 36, 37

• Syllabification 33, 34, 38–51

• syncope 33, 34, 44–46, 48–50

• Syrian Arabic 153–177

• telic 157, 164

• template 97, 130, 131, 132, 136, 137, 146, 147, 155, 239, 242

• templatic comparative 129–133, 135, 136, 138–147

• templatic morphology 129–131, 144, 148

• trochees 56, 58, 59, 76, 77, 81

• Utterances over turns 233, 241

• variables 8, 11, 13

• Variation 7, 8, 10–12, 14, 94, 108, 136, 167

• verbal participle 153, 155, 172, 173

• word-based 130, 148