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The papers in this volume address core areas in contemporary Arabic linguistics: syntax, phonology, and variation studies. The papers in the syntax sections address different topics from the perspective of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995) and subsequent work. The topics in this section are adverbs and adjectives, resumptive pronouns, gapping and VP deletion, and the morphosyntax of reciprocals. The phonology section consists of a contribution on coarticulation effects of uvular(ized) segments, and of a paper on pharyngealization and uvularization within the framework of Optimality Theory. The sociolinguistics papers in the third section of the volume represent three important lines of inquiry: discourse level variation, stylistic variation, and diachronic variation.
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PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS XI 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 (Edinburgh) Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin); Ernst Pulgram (Ann Arbor, Mich.) E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, BG.); Danny Steinberg (Tokyo) Volume 167 Elabbas Benmamoun, Mushira Eid and Niloofar Haeri (eds) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XI PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS XI PAPERS FROM THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS Edited by ELABBAS BENMAMOUN University of Illinois MUSHIRA EID The University of Utah NILOOFAR HAERI Johns Hopkins University JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 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. Elabbas Benmamoun, Mushira Eid and Niloofar Haeri (eds) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XI Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 167) ISBN 90 272 3672 (Eur.) / 1 55619 883 3 (US) (alk. paper) © Copyright 1998 - 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 · P.O.Box 27519 · Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 · USA Table of Contents Foreword Introduction L vii 1 Syntactic Perspectives Layers in the Distribution of Arabic Adverbs and Adjectives and Their Licensing Abdelkader Fassi Fehri The Unoptionality of Resumptive Pronouns: The Case of Moroccan Arabic Abdessalam Elomari 9 47 Gapping and VP Deletion in Moroccan Arabic Ibtissam Kortobi 65 Implicit Reciprocals in Standard Arabic 91 Mark S. LeTourneau Π. Phonological Perspectives Gradient Uvularization Spread in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh Optimized Postvelar Harmony in Palestinian Arabic 117 143 Kimary N. Shahin ΠΙ. Perspectives on Variation Reported Speech in Arabic Journalistic Discourse Ahmed Fakhri 167 vi Gender in Linguistic Variation: The Variable (q) in Damascus Arabic Jamil Daher 183 Literary Arabic and Early Hijazi: Contrasts in the Marking of Definiteness David Testen 209 Index of Subjects 226 FOREWORD The Eleventh Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics was held February 28-March 2, 1997, at Emory University, Atlanta. The symposium was sponsored by the Arabic Linguistics Society,