Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII : papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Gainesville, Florida, 2014 / edited by Youssef A. Haddad, Eric Potsdam.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Conference Name:

Arabic Linguistics (2014 : Gainesville, Florida)

Series:

Studies in Arabic linguistics ; Volume 4.

Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 2212-8042 ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Congresses.

Arabic language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016.

Summary:

This volume makes important contributions to the growing body of descriptive and theoretical studies in Arabic linguistics. It focuses on the rich linguistic work being done on Arabic dialects. The papers on individual dialects draw attention to the micro-variation that exists, emphasize that they do not comprise a uniform group, and reveal the implications of dialectal variation for linguistic theory. The chapters are distributed over three parts: phonetics and phonology, syntax, and sociolinguistics. They address first and second language acquisition, historical linguistics, phonetics, aspects of negation, light verb constructions, raising verbs, and sociolinguistic variation. The book is indispensable reading for those working in dialect description, the analysis of Arabic and the Semitic languages, and linguistic theory more generally.

Contents:

Intro

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Phonetics and phonology

2. Syntax

3. Sociolinguistics

I. Phonetics and phonology

Phonation and glottal states in Modern South Arabian and San'ani Arabic

1. Introduction

2. Phonological patterning

Verb morphology

Definiteness marking

Pre-pausal glottal phenomena

Utterance-initial glottal phenomena

3. Discussion and phonological implications

A suggested phonological model for phonation

References

Examining feature economy in Arabic dialects

2. Feature economy

Measuring feature economy

Feature economy at the synchronic level

Feature economy at the diachronic level

Feature economy and Arabic

3. Method

Data collection

Feature specification

Metrics to calculate the economy index E

4. Results

5. Discussion

Reference

Appendix I. Consonant inventories of dialects

L1-English tense-lax vowel system influence on L2-Arabic short and long vowel learning

Background on Arabic and English vowels

Current study

2. Methods

Participants

Stimuli

Procedure

3. Results

Production task and judgment

Discrimination task

4. Discussion

5. Conclusion

On the status of derived affricates in Arabic dialects

2. Affricates in San'ani Arabic

3. Affricates in Cairene Arabic

4. Affricates in Iksali Arabic

II. Syntax

On NPIs and QPs in Sason Arabic

2. Phrase structure of Sason Arabic

V-to-T raising

Position of the preverbal subject

3. Negative polarity items

4. NPI and quantifiers

Quantifiers and negation.

NPI-QP interaction: ISC, Neg raising and reconstruction

5. The effects of PF on NPI-QP orders

Phonology-induced effect

Scope rigidity and locality in QR

6. Conclusion

Temporal NPIs and NCIs as adverb phrases: The case of Jordanian Arabic

2. Empirical generalizations

3. The status of ʕʊmr and baʕd

ʕʊmr and baʕd as heads selecting a NegP

ʕʊmr and baʕd as adverbs in Spec-XP

4. Analysis of ʕʊmr and baʕd

ʕʊmr and baʕd as XPs

The NP subject preceding ʕʊmr and baʕd

5. ʕʊmr and baʕd as XPs: licensing by negative constituents

Clause structure in contact contexts: The case of Sason Arabic

2. Sason Arabic

Brief overview of the phonology and morphology of SA

Brief overview of key syntactic properties of SA

Negation in SA

3. Copular constructions in SA

4. Word order and copular constructions

The syntax of motion light verbs in Jordanian and Moroccan Arabic

2. Properties of light verb constructions in JA and MA

Same event

A single tense

Lexical aspect

A single negative marker

Argument structure

3. Analysis

Against a vP shell for light verb constructions in Arabic

4. A note on grammaticalization

Cyclic spell-out derived agreement in Arabic raising constructions

2. The data

Word order and agreement patterns

Summary and theoretical issues

3. A backwards raising approach

Phases in raising constructions

FA vs. PA - Ways to satisfy the EPP

Back to raising constructions

Subject movement vs. no movement constructions

4. Conclusion and broader implications

III. Sociolinguistics

(q) as a sociolinguistic variable in the Arabic of Gaza City

1. Introduction.

2. The sample and the variable

3. Uvular stop (q)

Variability in Gaza City

4. Social variables

Age

Gender

Dialect background

A note on statistical analysis

5. Findings and discussion

(q) and dialect background

(q) and age

(q) and gender

Complicating gender in Gaza City

Index.

Notes:

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