E-Book Content
PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS VI AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE General Editor E.F. KONRAD KOERNER (University of Ottawa) Series IV - CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY Advisory Editorial Board Henning Andersen (Los Angeles); Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles) Thomas V. Gamkrelidze (Tbilisi); John E. Joseph (Hong Kong) Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin); Ernst Pulgram (Ann Arbor, Mich.) E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Danny Steinberg (Tokyo) Volume 115 Mushira Eid, Vicente Cantarino and Keith Walters (eds) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics VI PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS VI PAPERS FROM THE SIXTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS Edited by MUSHIRA EID University of Utah, Salt Lake City VICENTE CANTARINO Ohio State University, Columbus KEITH WALTERS University of Texas, Austin JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 1994 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. Library of Congress Catalog Serial Number: 91-641663 ISBN 90 272 3618 6 (Eur.)/l-55619-569-9 (US) © Copyright 1994 - 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 75577 • 1070 AN Amsterdam • The Netherlands John Benjamins North America • 821 Bethlehem Pike • Philadelphia, PA 19118 • USA Table of Contents Foreword Introduction vii 1 I. Arabic in Contact: The Hispano-Arabic Connection Current State of Research in the Field of Andalusi Arabic: Achievements and prospects Federico Corriente 7 Aljamiado and the Moriscos' Islamicization of Spanish Consuelo López Morilla 17 From Spoken to Written Language and Back: Some cultural considerations on Hispano-Arabic phonetics Vicente Cantarino 25 On Hispano-Arabic Historical Phonology: Latin and Romance evidence Máximo Torreblanca 37 Elements of Romance Prosody in the Poetry of Ibn Quzman James Monroe 63 H. Arabic in Contact: Other Connections Connectives in Arabic Diglossia: The case of Lebanese Arabic Mahmoud Al-Batal Classical Arabic in Contact: The transition to near categorical agreement patterns R. Kirk Belnap & John Gee 91 121 vi On the Development of the Arabic Subjunctive David Testen 151 III. Phonological Perspectives Arabic Segmental Errors and Segmental Phonology Sabah Safi-Stagni 169 Rules of Phonology: Pre- or post-syllable structure? Basim Majdi & Millicent Winston 185 On Emphasis and /r/ in Arabic Munther Younes 215 Index of Subjects 237 FOREWORD On March 6-8, 1992, the Sixth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics was held at The Ohio State University in Columbus. The symposium was sponsored by the Arabic Linguistics Society; The Ohio State University's College of Humanities, Departments of Judaic & Near Eastern Languages & Literatures, Spanish & Italian, and Linguistics, and its Centers for Middle Eastern Studies and for Medieval & Renaissance Studies; and by the University of Utah's College of Humanities and Department of Languages & Literature. A total of 26 papers were presented at the symposium. Of these, 11 are included in this volume. This program included a session devoted to Spanish-Arabic Linguistics in which the speakers were invited to address this topic. The rest of the papers presented were selected on the basis of an anonymous review of abstracts submitted to the Program Committee. The papers included in the volume hav