Perspectives On Arabic Linguistics: Papers From The Annual Symposium On Arabic Linguistics. Volume Xix: Urbana, Illinois, April 2005

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIX AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE General Editor E.F.K. KOERNER (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin) Series IV – CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY Advisory Editorial Board Lyle Campbell (Salt Lake City); 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 289 Elabbas Benmamoun (ed.) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIX Papers from the nineteenth annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Urbana, Illinois, April 2005 Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIX Papers from the nineteenth annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Urbana, Illinois, April 2005 Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 4- 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.   Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XIX : Papers from the nineteenth annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Urbana, Illinois, April 2005 / Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun. (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 289) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978 90 272 4804 6 (Hb; alk. paper) © 2007 – 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 Acknowledgments vii Foreword Elabbas Benmamoun ix Section I: Computational and Corpus Linguistics Systematicity in the Arabic Mental Lexicon Ilana Bromberg Arabic PAPPI: A Principles and Parameters Parser Sandiway Fong 3 19 Corpus-based Linguistic Analyses: Testing Intuitions about Arabic Structure and Use Salem Ghazali 37 Learning Arabic Morphology Using Statistical Constraint-Satisfaction Models Paul Rodrigues and Damir Ćavar 63 Learning to Use the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank Otakar Smrž, Petr Pajas, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Jan Hajič, Jiří Mírovský, and Petr Němec 77 CONTENTS vi Section II: Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax Intonational and Rhythmic Patterns across the Dialect Continuum Salem Ghazali, Rym Hamdi and Khouloud Knis 97 Roots and Patterns in Arabic Lexical Processing Abdessatar Mahfoudhi 123 Affrication in North Arabic Revisited Eiman Mustafawi 151 The Syntax of Complex Tense in Moroccan Arabic Hamid Ouali and Catherine Fortin 175 On Agree and Postcyclic Merge in Syntactic Derivations: First Conjunct Agreement in Standard Arabic Usama Soltan 191 Section III: Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition Null Subjects Use by English and Spanish Learners of Arabic as an L2 Mohammad T. Alhawary 217 Linguistic Diversity: The Qaaf across Arabic Dialects Maher Bahloul 247 Arabic Sociolinguistics and Cultural Diversity in Morocco Moha Ennaji 267 The Gendered Use of Arabic and Other Languages in Morocco Fatima Sadiqi 277 Index of Subjects 301 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics was held at the University of Illi