Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XXVI : papers from the Annual Symposia on Arabic linguistics : New York, 2012 / Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (26th : 2012 : New York City) ; edited by Reem Khamis-Dakwar, Karen Froud.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Khamis-Dakwar, Reem, editor.

Froud, Karen, editor.

Conference Name:

Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (26th : 2012 : New York City)

Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics.

Series:

Studies in Arabic literature ; Volume 2.

Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 2212-8042 ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Congresses.

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Grammar--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Diglossia is one distinctive feature of Arabic and other languages, such as Swiss-German (Ferguson 1959). Neurocognitive studies aiming to understand the neural mechanisms of diglossia in general, and Arabic diglossia in particular, are sparse. This paper provides a framework for discussing neurophysiological approaches to questions concerning the representation and processing of languages exhibiting diglossia in the brains of native speakers, as well as understanding the potential contribution of such approaches for applied linguistics and teaching Arabic as a first or second language. The fi

Contents:

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction ; References ; Acknowledgments ; The development of future participles and future tense markers from motion predicates ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Motion participle > future participle > future tense ; The morphosyntax of participles ; Grammaticalization as feature-copying and feature-deletion ; 3. The future participle as a raising predicate ; Morphosyntactic and structural reduction ; 3. Conclusion ; References ; Yod-dropping in b-imperfect verb forms in Amman

1. Dialect contact and new dialect formation A historical sketch of Amman ; 2. The population ; 3. The research ; 4. The three generations and their overall sociolinguistic profile ; 5. The data and analysis ; Yod in imperfect verb forms ; Variation in the data and discussion ; 3. Conclusion ; References ; Syntax; Prosodic constituency and locality in Levantine Arabic ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Negative concord in Southern Levantine Arabic ; N-words in Southern Levantine Arabic ; An overview of negative concord ; Negative concord licensing and locality ; Which verbs allow LDNC?

LNDC as syntactic movement? Prosodic locality ; Prosodic conditions on scope interpretation ; Condition on extended scope taking ; Prosodic locality in southern levantine LDNC? ; 3. Summary ; References ; Negation and the subject position in San'ani Arabic; 1. Morpho-syntax of sentential negation in Arabic varieties ; 2. Sentential negation and the subject ; 3. Interaction between the subject and negation in San`ani and Moroccan Arabic ; 4. Conclusion ; References ; Splitting Neg: The morphosyntax of sentential negation in Cairene Egyptian Arabic revisited

1. Introduction: Patterns of sentential negation in Cairene Egyptian Arabic 2. Distribution of discontinuous and independent negation in CEA ; 3. The position of NegP on the clausal hierarchy in Arabic dialects ; 4. The grammatical status of the -š enclitic of the negation morpheme ; 5. Splitting Neg ; 6. Empirical consequences of the split-Neg analysis ; 6.1 Empirical consequences I: Revisiting the behavior of -š in NPI contexts ; 6.2 Empirical consequences II: Dialectal variation and the Jespersen's cycle ; 6.3 Empirical consequences III: Sentential negation with (wa)laa in CEA

7. Conclusions References ; Multiple agreement in Arabic; Introduction; Feature Inheritance and multiple agreement in Arabic; Properties of complex tense clauses; Multiple agreement and the subject positions; Conclusion; References; Cyclic AGREE derives restrictions on cliticization in classical Arabic; 1. Person based restrictions and the workings of agree ; 2. Restrictions on cliticization in classical arabic ; The Person case constraint ; Combinations of third person pronouns ; Alternate strategies for realizing banned clitic combinations ; Summary

3. The structure of causative double accusative verbs

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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027269683

9027269688