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This volume brings together ten peer-reviewed articles on Arabic linguistics. The articles are distributed over three parts: phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics and pragmatics, and language acquisition. Including data from North African, Levantine, and Gulf varieties of Arabic, as well as Arabic varieties spoken in diaspora, these articles address issues that range from phonetic neutralization and diminutive formation to diglossia, dialect contact, and language acquisition in heritage speakers. The book is valuable reading for linguists in general and for those working on descriptive and theoretical aspects of Arabic linguistics in particular.
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Studies in Arabic Linguistics Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI Edited by Amel Khalfaoui and Youssef A. Haddad 8 John Benjamins Publishing Company Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI Studies in Arabic Linguistics This book series aims to publish original research in all fields of Arabic linguistics, including – but not limited to – theoretical linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, typology, and language acquisition. Submissions from all current theoretical frameworks are welcome. Studies may deal with one or more varieties of Arabic, or Arabic in relation to or compared with other languages. Both monographs and thematic collections of research papers will be considered. The series includes monographs and thematically coherent collective volumes, in English. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/sal Editors Elabbas Benmamoun Enam Al-Wer Duke University University of Essex Editorial Board Mahasen Hasan Abu-Mansour Mustafa A. Mughazy Sami Boudelaa Jamal Ouhalla Stuart Davis Jonathan Owens Mushira Eid Janet C.E. Watson Clive Holes Manfred Woidich Umm Al-Qura University United Arab Emirates University Indiana University University of Utah The Oriental Institute, Oxford Western Michigan University University College Dublin University of Bayreuth University of Leeds University of Amsterdam Jean Lowenstamm CNRS-Université Paris 7 Volume 8 Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI. Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017 Edited by Amel Khalfaoui and Youssef A. Haddad Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017 Edited by Amel Khalfaoui University of Oklahoma Youssef A. Haddad University of Florida John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. doi 10.1075/sal.8 Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from Library of Congress: lccn 2014023415 isbn 978 90 272 0326 7 (Hb) isbn 978 90 272 6244 8 (e-book) © 2019 – 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 Company · https://benjamins.com Table of contents Acknowledgments Introduction Amel Khalfaoui & Youssef A. Haddad vii ix Part I. Phonetics and phonology Incomplete phonetic neutralization: What Arabic can bring to the debate Nancy Hall Diminutive formation in a Libyan dialect with some phonological implications Abdulhamid Gadoua & Stuart Davis 3 31 Diminutive and augmentative formation in nort