Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII
Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013
Editors
The study of Arabic dialects has been an important and rich area of research over the past thirty-five years or so, with significant implications for modern linguistic analysis. The current volume builds on this tradition with ten scholarly contributions that provide novel data and analyses in multiple areas of Arabic linguistics: Syntax and its interfaces; regional and sociolinguistic variation; and first language acquisition. The linguistic facts in the volume are drawn from the various Arabic dialects spoken in North Africa, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, and Standard Arabic, and the analyses proposed reflect current approaches in linguistic theory. The volume, therefore, should be of interest to formal linguists, sociolinguists, historical linguists, dialectologists, as well as researchers on first language acquisition. It is our hope that the papers in this volume will spur more interest in and research on further aspects of Arabic linguistics.
[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 3] 2016. xvii, 238 pp.
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© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. ix
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IntroductionStuart Davis and Usama Soltan | pp. xi–xvii
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Part I: Syntax and its interfaces
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Locative prepositional phrases and inalienable PLACE in Lebanese Arabic*Lina Choueiri | pp. 3–33
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On the syntax of exceptive constructions in Egyptian Arabic*Usama Soltan | pp. 35–57
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Verbal and nominal plurals and the syntaxmorphology interfaceElabbas Benmamoun | pp. 59–74
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Exploring the syntax-phonology interface in ArabicSam Hellmuth | pp. 75–97
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A salience-based analysis of the Tunisian Arabic demonstrative hāk as used in oral narratives*Amel Khalfaoui | pp. 99–120
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Part II: Arabic Linguistic Variation
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Moroccan artists ‘blacklisted’: Dialect loyalty and gendered national identity in an age of digital discourse*Atiqa Hachimi | pp. 123–150
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Lateral fricative ḍād in Tihāmat Qaḥtān: A quantitative sociolinguistic investigationEnam Al-Wer and Khairia Al-Qahtani | pp. 151–169
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Arabic ȷ̌ and the class of Sun Letters: A historical and dialectological perspectiveAaron Freeman | pp. 171–185
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Quantifying lexical and pronunciation variation between three Arabic varieties*Mahmoud Abunasser and Elabbas Benmamoun | pp. 187–212
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Part III: First Language Acquisition
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Compensatory lengthening: Evidence from child ArabicEman Abdoh | pp. 215–236
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Index | pp. 237–238
“For the Arabist reader, these papers will serve as groundbreaking work unifying detailed studies of Arabic with theoretically valuable discussion. For the general linguist, these papers provide a fine entry point to the Arabic specialist literature via empirically mature treatments of many different facets of the language.”
Matthew A. Tucker, Oakland University, in Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 10 (2018)
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF/2CS: Linguistics/Semitic languages
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General