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PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS XV AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE General Editor E. F. KONRAD KOERNER (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin) Series IV – CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY Advisory Editorial Board Lyle Campbell (Christchurch, N.Z.); Sheila Embleton (Toronto); Brian D. Joseph (Columbus, Ohio); John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) Manfred Krifka (Berlin); E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Joseph C. Salmons (Madison, Wis.); Hans-Jürgen Sasse (Köln) Volume 247 Dilworth B. Parkinson and Samira Farwaneh (eds.) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XV Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Salt Lake City 2001. PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS XV PAPERS FROM THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS, SALT LAKE CITY 2001 Edited by DILWORTH B. PARKINSON Brigham Young University SAMIRA FARWANEH University of Arizona JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Dilworth B. Parkinson and Elabbas Benmamoun (eds.) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XV (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 247) ISBN 90 272 4759 5 (Eur.) / 1 58811 487 2 (US) (Hb; alk. paper) © 2003 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. • P.O.Box 36224 • 1020 ME Amsterdam • The Netherlands John Benjamins North America • P.O.Box 27519 • Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 • USA CONTENTS Editorial Note Introduction Dilworth B. Parkinson I. Sociolinguistics Discourse Particles Revisited: The Case of Wallahi in Egyptian Arabic Mustafa A. Mughazy 3 Theories of Code Switching in the Light of Empirical Data from Egypt Reem Bassiouney 19 Translating Arabic Speech Act Expressions Rudolf Reinelt 41 II. Syntax Relative Clauses in Syrian Arabic: Two Reconstruction Problems James Darrow 53 Interpretability, Feature Strength, and Impoverished Agreement in Arabic Mark S. LeTourneau 85 III. Corpus Linguistics Evolution of MSA, the Case of Some Complementary Particles Mark Van Mol 135 CONTENTS NP Structure Types in Spoken and Written Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Corpora Sameh Al-Ansary 149 Comparing Frequencies of Lexical Productions in Arabic Words Stephen Taylor 181 Future Variability: A Corpus Study of Arabic Future Particles Dilworth B. Parkinson 191 Index of Subjects 213 EDITORIAL NOTE On March 2-3, 2001, the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics was held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. The symposium was sponsored by the Arabic Linguistics Society and the Univesity of Utah. Samira Farwaneh was the local organizer of the symposium. A total of twenty-four papers were presented at the symposium; of these, nine are published in this volume. The papers presented at the symposium were selected on the basis of an anonymous review of abstracts submitted to the Program Committee. The papers included in the volume were further reviewed by the editors before their final acceptance for publication. The transcription of all Arabic materials in the body of the papers follows the International Phonetic Alphabet or standard equivalents. The Arabic emphatics