Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIX : Papers from the Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Urbana, April 2005.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benmamoun, Elabbas.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 289.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, 289.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 289

CILT ; 289

Current issues in linguistic theory ; 289

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Grammar--Congresses.

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Semantics--Congresses.

Arabic language--Syntax--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume offers a selection from the papers presented at the 2005 Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The papers cover a variety of topics in Arabic Linguistics, ranging from the lexicon, phonology, syntax and computational linguistics.

Contents:

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIX

Editorial page

Title page

copyright page

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD

I. Computational and Corpus Linguistics

SYSTEMATICITY IN THE ARABIC MENTAL LEXICON

1. Introduction

2. Determining Semantic Similarity

3. Determining Phonetic Similarity

4. Results and Discussion

5. Further Work

REFERENCES

ARABIC PAPPI

2. PAPPI Architecture

3. NegP and VSO

4. VSO/SOV Word Order and the AGR Criterion

5. Conclusions

CORPUS-BASED LINGUISTIC ANALYSES

2. The Verb Ɂawʃaka

3. The Particle qad

4. Conclusion

REFER ENCES

LEARNING ARABIC MORPHOLOGY USING STATISTICAL CONSTRAINT-SATISFACTION MODELS

2. Prior Work

3. A Statistical Approach

4. Learning

LEARNING TO USE THE PRAGUE ARABIC DEPENDENCY TREEBANK

2. Data Structures

3. Installation and General Setup

4. The Quest for Improper Annexation

5. Applications and Prospects

6. Conclusion

7. Acknowledgements

II. Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax

INTONATIONAL AND RHYTHMIC PATTERNS ACROSS THE ARABIC DIALECT CONTINUUM

2. Vowel Duration and Syllable Structure along the Continuum

3. Speech Rhythm

4. Intonation

5. Conclusion

Roots and patterns in Arabic Lexical Processing

2. Theories of Arabic Morphology: Patterns and Roots or Stems and Affixes?

3. Previous Studies

4. Study 1: Sound Roots

5. Study 2: Sound and Disrupted Patterns

6. General Discussion

APPENDIX 1

APPENDIX 2

APPENDIX 3

References

AFFRICATION IN NORTH ARABIC REVISITED

2. The Phonetic Context of Affrication

3. The Stem as the Domain of Affrication.

4. Paradigm Uniformity Effects

5. Doublets

APPENDIX

THE SYNTAX OF COMPLEX TENSE IN MOROCCAN ARABIC

1. Tense and Aspect in Moroccan Arabic

2. Complex Tense vs. ECM Constructions

3. Conclusion

ON AGREE AND POSTCYCLIC MERGE IN SYNTACTIC DERIVATIONS

2. First Conjunct Agreement in Standard Arabic

3. A Spec-Head Agreement Approach to FCA

4. The SVAA Revisited: A Base-Generation Analysis

5. Deriving FCA: AGREE and Postcyclic Merge

6. Conclusions

III. Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition

NULL SUBJECTS USE BY ENGLISH AND SPANISH LEARNERS OFARABIC AS AN L2

2. Null Subjects in L1 Acquisition

3. Null Subjects in L2 Acquisition

4. Methods

5. Discussion and Conclusion

LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY

2. Variants of the qaaf in Northwest and Northeast Africa

3. Variants of the qaaf in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR)

4. Variants of the qaaf in the Northern and Central Arabian Peninsula

5. Variants of the qaaf in the Southern Arabian Peninsula

ARABIC SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN MOROCCO

2. Diglossia, Triglossia or Quadriglossia?

3. Standard Arabic-French Bilingualism

4. Language Tension

5. Language Attitudes

THE GENDERED USE OF ARABIC AND OTHER LANGUAGES IN MOROCCO

2. The Linguistic Situation in Morocco

3. The Interaction of Language and Gender in Morocco

4. Moroccan Women's Strategies of Communication

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612151989

9781282151987

1282151983

9789027291301

9027291306

OCLC:

648331579