Papers from the annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics / editors, Mushira Eid, Dilworth Parkinson.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Eid, Mushira.

Parkinson, Dilworth B., 1951-

Conference Name:

Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (9th : 1995 : Washington, D.C.)

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, 141.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 141

Perspectives on Arabic linguistics ; IX

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Congresses.

Arabic language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume includes twelve papers selected from the Ninth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 1995. Three of the papers deal with codeswitching with Arabic, two with the acquisition of Arabic, and four with different aspects of Arabic grammatical structure. The volume also includes three papers presenting data on negation in some Arabic dialects (including those of Yemen, Morocco, Egypt).The topics are diverse and include Arabic and constraints on codeswitching, verb embeddings and collocations in codeswitching, ellipsis in child langu

Contents:

PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS IX; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; I. CODESWITCHING WITH ARABIC; ARABIC AND CONSTRAINTS ON CODESWITCHING; EMBEDDING VERBS AND COLLOCATIONSIN MOROCCAN ARABIC/DUTCH CODESWITCHING; CODESWITCHING, CODE-MIXING, AND BORROWINGIN THE SPOKEN ARABIC OF A THEATRICALCOMMUNITY IN CAIRO; II. GRAMMATICAL PERSPECTIVES; IMPLICATIONAL DIALECTOLOGY: SECOND PERSONPRONOUNS AND SUFFIXES IN TUNISIAN ARABIC; CLITIC LEFT DISLOCATION IN MOROCCAN ARABIC; ACCESSING PHARYNGEAL PLACEIN PALESTINIAN ARABIC

THE DERIVATION OF THE IMPERATIVE IN ARABIC; III. PERSPECTIVES ON THEACQUISITION OF ARABIC; RESETTING PARAMETERS IN ACQUIRING ARABIC; ELLIPSIS AS A MIRROR OF CASE AND AGREEMENTPRINCIPLES IN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; IV. NEGATION IN ARABIC; THE NEGATION maašiiIN A YAAFI'I DIALECT (YEMEN); NEGATION IN SOME ARABIC DIALECTS OF THETIHAAMAH OF THE YEMEN; MA-TI RAF XEER-I:VERBAL NEGATION IN EGYPTIAN AND MOROCCAN ARABICPROVERBS; INDEX OF SUBJECTS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-31254-9

9786613312549

90-272-7621-8

OCLC:

759101603