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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics : Papers from the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XXII-XXIII: College Park, Maryland, 2008 and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2009.
The present volume presents cutting-edge research on Arabic linguistics. It features a set of papers which continue a long tradition of seeking new explanations for familiar or previously undiscovered structural patterns. While the papers illustrate a range of approaches, from formalist to functiona...
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- PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Editors' Introduction; 1. Linguistics and Arabic linguistics; 1.1 Universals and cross-language variation; 1.2 Sources of typological tendencies: Language acquisitionand language change; 1.3 Interfaces of linguistic subsystems; 1.4 Linguistic data; 2. Current trends in Arabic linguistics; 2.1 Phonetics and phonology; 2.2 Syntax and semantics; 2.3 Language acquisition and language contact; 3. Closing remark; Note on transcription of Arabic; References.
- Part I. Phonetics & phonologyEmpirical evidence; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of syllable structure and stress in CA; 2.1 Syllable structure in CA; 2.2 Stress assignment in Cairene Arabic; 2.3 Minimal word size in Cairene Arabic; 3. Experiment; 3.1 Methodology; 3.2 Results; 3.2.1 Reaction times and miss rate; 3.2.2 Error type; 3.3 Discussion; 4. Conclusion; References; Appendix A; Replication of Cutler & Norris (1988); Appendix B; CA competing lexical candidates CVVC vs. CVCC mistakes per syllable context; Regressive voicing assimilation in Cairene Arabic*; 1. Introduction.
- 2. The facts of CA regressive voicing assimilation2.1 Consonant clusters and syllable structure in CA; 2.2 Regressive voicing assimilation; 2.3 Methodology and data gathering; 3. Analysis of voicing assimilation; 3.1 Regressive assimilation in intervocalic obstruent clusters; 3.2 Word-final regressive assimilation; 4. The unique behavior of gutturals; 4.1 Laryngeals; 4.2 Uvulars; 4.3 Pharyngeals; 5. Conclusion; References; Leading, linking, and closing tones and tunes in Egyptian Arabic
- what a simple intonation system tells us about the nature of intonation; 1. Background and goal.
- 2. Some basic facts of EA intonation3. An alternative representation of EA intonation; 4. Tones and tunes and the iconic meaning of intonation; 4.1 Leading versus closing tonal contours; 4.2 Leading versus linking tones; 4.3 The phonetic realization of leading and closing tones; 5. Summary, conclusion and outlook; References; Part II. Morphology and syntax; Arabic agree, silent pronouns, and reciprocals; 1. Verb subject agree asymmetries and semantic number; 1.1 Nominal number; 1.1.1 Where is number?; 1.1.2 Non-human plurality; 1.1.3 Lexical collectives; 1.1.4 Syntactic collectives.
- 1.1.5 Plural of plural and similar matters1.2 Verb plurality; 1.2.1 Pluractional morphology; 1.2.2 Collective and distributive plural; 1.2.3 Semantic Pl in SVO; 1.2.4 Collective and non-collective plural agreement; 2. Pro in consistent NSL Arabic; 2.1 The referential/non-referential correlation; 2.2 Impersonals/indefinites; 2.2.1 Generic; 2.2.2 The human feature; 2.3 Referential pro; 2.3.1 A topic approach; 2.3.2 A Probe-Goal Implementation; 2.4 Passive' 'impersonal', 'indefinite'; 2.5 Expletives and EPP; 2.5.1 Arabic expletives; 2.5.2 Pronouns and EPP; 2.6 A new approach to Voice.