Full Description
This volume provides important contributions to Arabic linguistics and Linguistic research in general by presenting new empirical facts and innovative theoretical analyses. It consists of two major parts: the first contains four papers on phonology and morphology, most of which deal with phonology/morphology interface, while the second part includes five papers on syntax. The papers featured represent some of the current trends in Arabic Linguistics especially in the areas of Phonology and Syntax. Some of the articles are contributions to ongoing debates on the nature and properties of specific aspects of Arabic, such as: gemination and stress assignment in Phonology, and negation in Syntax. Other papers introduce new topics such as: analyzing intonational patterns in Arabic Phonology, investigating the source of the morpheme /-in/ in the less studied varieties of Central Asian Arabic in Morphology, and analyzing "sluicing" in Syntax.
Contents
1. Acknowledgement; 2. Introduction; 3. Part I. Phonology and Morphology; 4. Geminate representation in Arabic (by Davis, Stuart); 5. Stress assignment in Makkan Arabic: A stratal-ot analysis (by Kabrah, Rawiah S.); 6. Investigating variation in Arabic intonation: The case for a multi-level corpus approach (by Hellmuth, Sam); 7. The Morpheme /-in(n)-/ in central Asian Arabic: A comparative study (by Miller, Kerith); 8. Part II. Syntax; 9. Variations on the same theme: Sentential negation and the negative copula in Arabic (by Benmamoun, Elabbas); 10. Negation and heads: Agreement and maximal projections in Palestinian Arabic (by Mohammad, Mohammad A.); 11. On negative concord in Egyptian and Moroccan Arabic (by Ouali, Hamid); 12. On the distribution and licensing of polarity-sensitive items in Egyptian Arabic:: The cases of gayy and walaa (by Soltan, Usama); 13. Modes of interrogatives entail modes of sluicing: Evidence from Emirati Arabic (by Leung, Tommi Tsz-Cheung); 14. Index
