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Papers from the eighth annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics / editor, Mushira Eid.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics.
- Series:
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, 134.
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 134
- Perspectives on Arabic linguistics ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic language--Syntax--Congresses.
- Arabic language.
- Arabic language--Grammar--Congresses.
- Arabic philology--Congresses.
- Arabic philology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamin Pub. Co., 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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; Elabba
- Contents:
- PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS VIII; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES; I. SYNTACTIC PERSPECTIVES; THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM:PRONOUN DOUBLING IN BILINGUAL AND MONOLINGUALGRAMMARS; EXTENDING THE NEGP HYPOTHESIS: EVIDENCEFROM STANDARD ARABIC; NEGATIVE POLARITY AND PRESUPPOSITION INARABIC; NEGATION IN FRENCH AND TUNISIAN ARABIC; BINDING IN ARABIC AND THE LEXICAL CLAUSE; THE INTERACTION OF CAUSATIVITY ANDREFLEXIVITY IN DERIVED ARABIC VERBS; II. PERSPECTIVES ON VARIATION; ARABIC SPEAKERS' RESETTING OF PARAMETERS
- DIGLOSSIA, LINGUISTIC VARIATION, AND LANGUAGE; CHANGE IN ARABIC; III. PHONOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES; VOICE AS A PRIVATIVE FEATURE:ASSIMILATION IN ARABIC; PHONEMIC PHARYNGEALIZATION; Index of Subjects
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-31258-1
- 9786613312587
- 90-272-7626-9
- OCLC:
- 759101601
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