Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XXXI : papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017 / edited by Amel Khalfaoui, Youssef A. Haddad.

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Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Khalfaoui, Amel, editor.

Haddad, Youssef A., 1972- editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Conference Name:

Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (31st : 2017 : University of Oklahoma)

Series:

Studies in Arabic linguistics ; 8.

Studies in Arabic linguistics ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Congresses.

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Grammar--Congresses.

Arabic language--Grammar.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages).

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Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro; Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Phonetics and phonology; Incomplete phonetic neutralization; 1. Introduction; Incomplete neutralization; Possible causes of incomplete neutralization; The spreading activation hypothesis; Research gaps; 2. Studies of phonetic neutralization in Arabic; Vowel epenthesis, and possible influence of sociolinguistic variation; Closed syllable shortening; Unstressed vowel shortening; No effect of orthography

Does incomplete neutralization have a functional role?3. Towards a spreading activation analysis for Arabic; Arabic morphology and the mental lexicon; Which words share timing patterns?; Representation of alternations: Evidence from priming; Representing vowel alternations in the lexicon; 4. Conclusion and future directions; Acknowledgement; References; Diminutive formation in a Libyan dialect with some phonological implications; 1. Introduction; 2. Brief description of the diminutive in Classical Arabic and two other varieties; The diminutive in Classical Arabic

The diminutive in contemporary Arabic dialectsThe diminutive in Coastal Dhofari Arabic; The diminutive in Moroccan Arabic; 3. Diminutive in the rural Asābʽā dialect of northwest Libya; 4. Some phonological issues; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Diminutive and augmentative formation in northern Najdi/Ḥā'ili Arabic; 1. Introduction; 2. Background on Najdi Arabic; 3. Diminutive and augmentative in Arabic; 4. Some connotations of the augmentative in the HD; 5. Morphological diminutive and augmentative in Ḥā'ili dialect; The diminutive in HD and CA

Diminutive and augmentative forms in HDMonosyllabic base words; Disyllabic base words; Trisyllabic base words; Base words with more than four root consonants; The Diminutive with [aj] infix and its augmentative form; Summary; 6. Conclusion; References; Post-lexical strata; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical background; 3. The interaction between syncope and resyllabification; Overview; Ali's (2014) account of phrasal syncope in UCSA and Shukriiya; Anchor 198; 4. A Stratal-OT account of the interaction between syncope and resyllabification; Lexical syncope; Post-lexical syncope; Summary

5. Further evidence for post-lexical stratification6. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; Anchor 206; Part II. Sociolinguistics and pragmatics; Destabilizing Arabic diglossia?; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; Complicating common understandings of diglossia; The turn toward considering translingual practice; The emergent register of interactive written discourse; 3. Methods; 4. Some representative data; 5. Discussion; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Dialect contact in the Tunisian diaspora; 1. Introduction; 2. The Tunisian community of Mazara del Vallo (Sicily)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XXXI. Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017.

ISBN:

9789027262448

9027262446

Publisher Number:

99982253660

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