Perspectives on Arabic linguistics VIII : papers from the Eighth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
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Perspectives on Arabic linguistics VIII : papers from the Eighth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
（Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Ser. 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 134）
J. Benjamins, c1996
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This volume includes ten papers selected from the Eighth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Masschusetts, Amherst, 1994. Six of them deal with the syntax of Arabic two with phonology, and two with variation. The topics represented in the volume include binding in Arabic, the analysis of negation and negative polarity items, pronoun doubling in codeswitching, linguistic variation and language change, voice assimilation in Arabic dialects, among others.
The volume includes contributions by the following: Mahasen Abu Mansour; Maher Bahloul; Raja Bahloul; Elabbas Benmamoun; Naomi Bolotin; Mushira Eid; Mark LeTourneau; Michael McOmber; Bernadette Plunkett; Keith Walters
Table of Contents
- 1. Foreword
- 2. Introduction
- 3. I. Syntactic Perspectives
- 4. Things are not what they seem: Pronoun doubling in bilingual and monolingual grammars (by Eid, Mushira)
- 5. Extending the NegP hypothesis: Evidence from standard Arabic (by Bahloul, Maher)
- 6. Negative polarity and presupposition in Arabic (by Benmamoun, Elabbas)
- 7. Negation in French and Tunesian Arabic (by Mallek Bahloul, Raja)
- 8. Binding in Arabic and the lexical clause (by Plunkett, Bernadette)
- 9. The interaction of causativity and reflexivity in derived Arabic verbs (by LeTourneau, Mark S.)
- 10. II. Perspectives on variation
- 11. Arabic speakers' resetting of parameters (by Bolotin, Naomi)
- 12. Diglossia, linguistic variation, and language change in Arabic (by Walters, Keith)
- 13. III. Phonological perspectives
- 14. Voice as aprivate feature: Asssimilation in Arabic (by Abu-Mansour, Mahasen Hasan)
- 15. Phonemic Pharyngealization (by McOmber, Michael L.)
- 16. Index of Subjects
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