Perspectives on Arabic linguistics IV : papers from the Fourth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
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Perspectives on Arabic linguistics IV : papers from the Fourth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
（Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Series IV . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 85）
J. Benjamins, 1992
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Arabic linguistics IV
Perspectives on Arabic linguistics 4
Perspectives on Arabic linguistics four
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Description
This volume includes papers on the study of Arabic dialects and their implications for general linguistics (Section I), as well of papers of a more general nature (Sections II and III). Because the Arabic dialects are similar in many ways, a study of their differences can help isolate precisely the range of permissible interlinguistic variation (i.e. the "parameters" of universal grammar). A number of papers in Section I focus on the contribution of dialect studies to a theory of crossdialectal and crosslinguistic variation; others focus on individual dialects, thus providing data and analyses that can further contribute to our understanding of this type of variation. The papers in Sections II and III of the volume are selected from the general session of the symposium and address sociolinguistic and historical aspects of Arabic, respectively.
Table of Contents
- 1. Foreword
- 2. Introduction
- 3. I. Arabic dialects: implications for general linguistics
- 4. Parametric variation in Arabic dialect phonology (by Broselow, Ellen)
- 5. Vowel shortening in two Arabic dialects (by Abu-Mansour, Mahasen Hasan)
- 6. Extra-Arabic affliations of k-Yemeni (by Testen, David)
- 7. Shifting boundaries: the effect of MSA on dialect convergence in Baghdad (by Abu-Haidar, Farida)
- 8. Pronouns, Questions, and agreement (by Eid, Mushira)
- 9. Cariene Arabic auxiliaries and the category AUX (by Eisele, John C.)
- 10. II. Sociolinguistic perspectives
- 11. How different are men and women: palatalization in Cairo (by Haeri, Niloofar)
- 12. A sociolinguistic description of (u:) in korba Arabic: defining linguistic variables in contact situations and relic areas (by Walters, Keith)
- 13. Code-mixing in the speech of Arabic-English bilinguals (by Atawneh, Ahmad A.)
- 14. III. Historical perspectives
- 15. Variable agreement with nonhuman controllers in classical and modern standard Arabic (by Belnap, R. Kirk)
- 16. Morphosyntactic analysis in Al-Jumal fii l-na@w: Discourse structure and metalanguage (by Ryding, Karin)
- 17. Index of subjects
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