Perspectives On Arabic Linguistics: Papers From The Annual Symposium On Arabic Linguistics. Volume Xx: Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 2006

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX 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 290 Mustafa A. Mughazy (ed.) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX. Papers from the twentieth annual symposium on Arabic linguistics, Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 2006. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX Papers from the twentieth annual symposium on Arabic linguistics, Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 2006 Edited by Mustafa A. Mughazy Western Michigan University 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 XX : Papers from the twentieth annual symposium on Arabic linguistics, Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 2006 / Mustafa A. Mughazy. (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 290) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978 90 272 4805 3 (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 Editorial Note vii Introduction Mustafa Mughazy ix I. Phonology and Morphology Stretching Ablaut: Morphological adaptation of new *CCu and *CCi stems in Moroccan Arabic Jeffrey Heath 3 Hypocoristics Revisited: Challenging the primacy of the consonantal root Samira Farwaneh 25 Morphology and Thematic Arity Operations: Evidence from Standard Arabic Lior Laks 51 II. Syntax On the Individual-Property Contrast in Free State Possessive Nominals in Egyptian Arabic Usama Soltan 71 Reconstruction and Islandhood in Jordanian Arabic Nouman Malkawi and Nicolas Guilliot 87 An Arabic Wackernagel Clitic? The morphosyntax of negation in Palestinian Arabic Frederick Hoyt 105 CONTENTS III. Psycholinguistics The Split-INFL Hypothesis: Findings from English and Japanese L2 learners of Arabic Mohammad T. Alhawary 135 Lexical Processing in Two Language Varieties: An even-related brain potential study of Arabic native speakers Reem Khamis-Dakwar and Karen Froud 153 IV. Pragmatics A Cognitive Approach to Analyzing Demonstratives in Tunisian Arabic Amel Khalfaoui 169 A Prosodic Feature That Invites Back-Channels in Egyptian Arabic Nigel Ward and Yaffa Al Bayyari 187 V. Computational Linguistics Implementing an Open Source Arabic Resource Grammar in GF Ali Dada and Aarne Ranta 209 A Link Grammar Parser for Arabic Warren Casbeer, Jon Dehdari and Deryle Lonsdale 233 Subject Index 245 EDITORIAL NOTE The papers included in this volume were presented at the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held on March 3-5 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The symposium was sponsored by the Arabic Linguistics Society, Weste