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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827347103321

Titolo

Papers from the eighth annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics / / editor, Mushira Eid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamin Pub. Co., , 1996

ISBN

1-283-31258-1

9786613312587

90-272-7626-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 134

Perspectives on Arabic linguistics ; ; 8

Altri autori (Persone)

EidMushira

Disciplina

492.7

492.705

Soggetti

Arabic language - Syntax

Arabic language - Grammar

Arabic philology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS VIII; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES; I. SYNTACTIC PERSPECTIVES; THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM:PRONOUN DOUBLING IN BILINGUAL AND MONOLINGUALGRAMMARS; EXTENDING THE NEGP HYPOTHESIS: EVIDENCEFROM STANDARD ARABIC; NEGATIVE POLARITY AND PRESUPPOSITION INARABIC; NEGATION IN FRENCH AND TUNISIAN ARABIC; BINDING IN ARABIC AND THE LEXICAL CLAUSE; THE INTERACTION OF CAUSATIVITY ANDREFLEXIVITY IN DERIVED ARABIC VERBS; II. PERSPECTIVES ON VARIATION; ARABIC SPEAKERS' RESETTING OF PARAMETERS

DIGLOSSIA, LINGUISTIC VARIATION, AND LANGUAGE; CHANGE IN ARABIC; III. PHONOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES; VOICE AS A PRIVATIVE FEATURE:ASSIMILATION IN ARABIC; PHONEMIC PHARYNGEALIZATION; Index of Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

This volume includes ten papers selected from the Eighth Annual



Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Masschusetts, Amherst, 1994. Six of them deal with the syntax of Arabic two with phonology, and two with variation. The topics represented in the volume include binding in Arabic, the analysis of negation and negative polarity items, pronoun doubling in codeswitching, linguistic variation and language change, voice assimilation in Arabic dialects, among others.The volume includes contributions by the following: Mahasen Abu Mansour; Maher Bahloul; Raja Bahloul; Elabba