Perspectives On Arabic Linguistics: Papers From The Annual Symposium On Arabic Linguistics. Volume Vii: Austin, Texas 1993

PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS VII 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 130 Mushira Eid (ed.) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics VII PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS VII PAPERS FROM THE SEVENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS Edited by MUSHIRA EID The University of Utah, Salt Lake City JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Mushira Eid (ed.) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics VII Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 130) ISBN 90 272 3633-X (Eur.) / 1-55619-584-2 (US) (alk. paper) © Copyright 1995 - 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 AGREEMENT IN ARABIC Arabic and Parametric VSO Agreement Naomi Bolotin 7 Internal and External Agreement in Quantified Construct States Mark S. LeTourneau 29 Parasitic Gaps in Arabic Wafaa Batran Wahba 59 Negation and Modality in Early Child Arabic Ibrahim Mohamed & Jamal Ouhalla 69 H. PERSPECTIVES FROM EXPERIMENT-BASED STUDIES Morphological Structure and Lexical Processing: Evidence from Arabic Sabah Safi-Stagni 93 Experimental Investigations of Arabic Syllable Structure Bruce L. Derwing, Dilworth B. Parkinson & Richard A. Beinert 107 The Timing Structure of CVVC Syllables Ellen Broselow, Marie Huffman, Su-I Chen & Ruohmei Hsieh 119 III. DISCOURSE AND PHONOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Topic Continuity in Arabic Narrative Discourse Ahmed Fakhri 141 On Vowel Shortening in Palestinian Arabic Munther A. Younes 157 Morpheme Edges and Arabic Infixation Michael L. McOmber 173 Index of Subjects 191 FOREWORD On March 5-6, 1993, the Seventh Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics was held at the University of Texas at Austin. The symposium was sponsored by the Arabic Linguistic Society, The University of Texas College of Liberal Arts, its Middle East Center, and its Departments of Linguistics and Oriental and African Languages and Literatures, and by the University of Utah's College of Humanities and the Department of Languages and Literature. A total of eighteen papers were presented at the symposium; of these, eight are published in this volume. Two other papers (Safi & Broselow et. al) were presented at the Eighth Annual Symposium but are included here for thematic reasons. The papers presented at the symposium were selected on the basis of an anonymous review of abstracts submitted t