Perspectives on Arabic linguistics I : papers from the first annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics / editor, Mushira Eid.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Eid, Mushira.

Conference Name:

Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (1st : 1987 : Salt Lake City, Utah)

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, 63.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Congresses.

Arabic language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume provides a general perspective on aspects of Arabic in relation to various areas of linguistics. To the general linguist, it is a source of information and data on Arabic analyzed within current models of analysis; to the Arabic linguist, it provides current analyses of both familiar and new data. The book is divided into three sections, which contain exciting papers on Arabic syntax (mostly within Government-Binding theory), textual analysis, and psycholinguistics. The volume opens with an overview of the current state of Arabic linguistics by the Editor and a major presentation by Charles Ferguson.

Contents:

""PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS I PAPERS FROM THE FIRST ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS ""; ""Editorial page ""; ""Title page ""; ""Copyright page ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""I. OVERVIEW ""; ""Arabic Linguistics: The Current Scene""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Arabic Linguistics""; ""2.1 A growing field ""; ""2.2 What is Arabic Linguistics? ""; ""3. Topics, Issues, and Approaches""; ""3.1 Arabic Theoretical Linguistics""; ""3.2 Arabic Dialectology ""; ""3.3 Arabic Sociolinguistics""; ""3.4 Other Areas of Arabic Linguistics""; ""4. Conclusion""; ""NOTES""

""REFERENCES""" """Come Forth with a Surah Like It"": Arabic as a Measure of Arab Society ""; ""REFERENCES""; ""II. GRAMMATICAL PERSPECTIVES""; ""Sound Plural and Broken Plural Assignment in Classical Arabic""; ""0. Introduction""; ""1. Background of the problem""; ""2. General principles of BP-SP assignment""; ""2.1 Adjectives and nouns""; ""2.1.1 Nouns""; ""2.1.2 Adjectives""; ""2.1.2.1 Quinqueliteral (QqL) Adjectives""; ""2.2 Geminates""; ""2.3 Foreign Words""; ""3. Conclusion ""; ""Appendix A""; ""Appendix B ""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""

""The Problem of Subject-Verb Agreement in Arabic: Towards a Solution"" ""0. Introduction""; ""1. The Expletive Pronominal in Arabic""; ""1.1 NP-Raising with Seem-type Verbs""; ""1.2 'Modal Verbs' ""; ""1.3 'Tough Movement'""; ""1.4 Subjectless Passives""; ""2. The Subject in VS Sentences ""; ""2.1 VSXP Order""; ""2.2 SVO Order""; ""2.3.0. Word Order""; ""2.3.1 Agreement Within a Standard SVO analysis""; ""2.3.2 Agreement Within an Extended SVO Analysis""; ""3. Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Word Order and Proper Government in Classical Arabic""; ""0. Introduction""

""1. Word Order"" ""1.1 The SVO Hypothesis""; ""1.2 The VSO Hypothesis""; ""1.3 The VOS Hypothesis""; ""2. Proper Government""; ""3. Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Bound Anaphora in Egyptian Arabic""; ""1. Theoretical Background""; ""2. Binding in Egyptian Arabic""; ""3. Backward Anaphora in Egyptian Arabic""; ""4. Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Time Reference, Tense, and Formal Aspect in Cairene Arabic""; ""1. Introduction""; ""1.1 Problems in the Analysis of Tense and Aspect in CA""; ""2. Previous Analyses of 'Tense'""; ""2.1 Reichenbach's (1947) Analysis of Tenses""

""2.2 Representation of Co-Occurrence Restrictions in CA"" ""2.3 On Compound Tenses and Embedded Forms""; ""2.4 Tense and Time Reference in CA: Summary""; ""3. Formal Aspect in English and CA""; ""3.1 Formal Aspect: Event, Process, State""; ""3.1.1 Event Forms: English Simple Forms, CA Perfect""; ""3.1.2 Progressive Forms: English Progressive, CA bi-Imperfect""; ""3.1.3 States and Stative Forms: Participles""; ""3.2 CA bi- Imperfect vs. AP: Process vs. Stative""; ""3.3 bi-Imperfect as Habitual and 'Processive: Specific vs. Non-Specific Time Reference""; ""4. Other Problematic Features of CA Verb Forms""

Notes:

Papers from a symposium held Apr. 24-25, 1987 at the University of Utah.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-31366-9

9786613313669

90-272-7833-4

OCLC:

816868611