Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX : papers from the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Kalamazoo, March 2006 / edited by Mustafa A. Mughazy.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Mughazy, Mustafa A.

Conference Name:

Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (20th : 2006 : Kalamazoo, Mich.)

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 290.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV. Current issues in linguistic theory ; 290

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Grammar--Congresses.

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Semantics--Congresses.

Arabic language--Syntax--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 247 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume includes twelve papers selected from the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held in 2006 at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. The papers in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues pertaining to Arabic, particularly in the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, computationallinguistics, and psycholinguistics. These contributions represent the emerging trend of interface research, where linguistic phenomena are investigated using the techniques, methodologies, and theoretical frameworks of different academic fields.

Contents:

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX

Editorial page

Title page

copyright page

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL NOTE

INTRODUCTION

I. PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY

STRETCHING ABLAUT

1. Introduction

2. The historical sound shifts

3. Non-syncopating North African dialects

4. Adaptation strategies

5. Plurals of CCu and CCi adjectives

6. Inherited plurals of CCu and CCi nouns

7. Productive MA nominal plural ablaut

8. MA ablaut plurals of nouns (ždi, dlu, žru)

9. Productive MA nominal and adjectival diminutive ablaut

10. MA diminutives of nouns (dlu, žru, ždi)

11. MA diminutives of adjectives (μma, ħlu, nqi, tri)

12. Modeling issues I: Creeping quadriliteralization

13. Modeling issues II: C2-doubling

14. Maps

REFERENCES

APPENDIX

HYPOCORISTICS REVISITED

2. Hypocoristic formation in Arabic

3. A word-based analysis of hypocoristic formation

4. Testing the constraint hierarchy

5. Conclusion

MORPHOLOGY AND THEMATIC ARITY OPERATIONS

2. Thematic arity operations

3. The verb morphology of Modern Standard Arabic

4. The morpho-phonological manifestation of the Lex-Syn Parameter

II. SYNTAX

ON THE INDIVIDUAL-PROPERTY CONTRAST IN FREE STATE POSSESSIVE NOMINALS IN EGYPTIAN ARABIC

1. Two types of possessives: Introducing the individual-property contrast

2. Adnominal possession strategies in EA

3. Syntactic asymmetries between IDPs and PDPs in FS possessives in EA

4. The IDP-PDP distinction at the syntax-semantics interface

5. Conclusions

RECONSTRUCTION AND ISLANDHOOD IN JORDANIAN ARABIC

2. Resumption

3. Paradoxes

4. What really matters for reconstruction

5. Analysis

6. Conclusion

AN ARABIC WACKERNAGEL CLITIC?.

1. Introduction

2. Negation in Palestinian Arabic

3. Analytical approaches

4. Conclusion

III. PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

THE SPLIT-INFL HYPOTHESIS

2. Methodology

3. Discussion and conclusion

APPENDIX A

LEXICAL PROCESSING IN TWO LANGUAGE VARIETIES

1. Background

2. Methods

3. Results

4. Discussion

IV PRAGMATICS

A COGNITIVE APPROACH TO ANALYZING DEMONSTRATIVES IN TUNISIAN ARABIC

2. The Givenness Hierarchy

3. Tunisian Arabic demonstratives

4. Analysis

5. Results and discussion

A PROSODIC FEATURE THAT INVITES BACK-CHANNELS IN EGYPTIAN ARABIC

1. Back-channeling as a dialog skill

2. Prosody and turn-taking in Arabic

3. Corpus preparation

4. Analysis method

5. Cues for back-channels

6. Examples

7. Quantitative description of the downdash feature complex

8. Evaluation

9. Open questions

V. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

IMPLEMENTING AN OPEN SOURCE ARABIC RESOURCE GRAMMAR IN GF

2. Background

3. Example

4. System overview

5. The grammar

6. Related work

7. Evaluation

8. Future work

9. Conclusion

A LINK GRAMMAR PARSER FOR ARABIC

2. Preprocessing

3. Link Grammar

4. Results

5. Ambiguity and scoring

6. Discussion and results

7. Applications and future work

8. Conclusions

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612151972

9781282151970

1282151975

9789027291295

9027291292

OCLC:

648331539