Perspectives On Arabic Linguistics: Papers From The Annual Symposium On Arabic Linguistics. Volume Viii: Amherst, Massachusetts 1994

PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS VIII 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 134 Mushira Eid (ed.) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics VIII PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS VIII PAPERS FROM THE EIGHTH 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 of American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Mushira Eid (ed.) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics VIII Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 134 ISBN 90 272 3638 0 (Eur.) / 1-55619-589-3 (US) (alk. paper) © Copyright 1996 - 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 I. vii 1 SYNTACTIC PERSPECTIVES Things Are Not What They Seem: Pronoun Doubling in Bilingual and Monolingual Grammars Mushira Eid Extending the NegP Hypothesis: Evidence from Standard Arabic Maker Bahloul 7 31 Negative Polarity and Presupposition in Arabic Elabbas Benmamoun 47 Negation in French and Tunisian Arabic Raja Mallek Bahloul 67 Binding in Arabic and the Lexical Clause Bernadette Plunkett 85 The Interaction of Causativity and Reflexivity in Derived Arabic Verbs Mark S. LeTourneau II. 99 PERSPECTIVES ON VARIATION Arabic Speakers' Resetting of Parameters Naomi Bolotin Diglossia, Linguistic Variation, and Language Change in Arabic Keith Walters 135 157 TABLE OF CONTENTS VI III. PHONOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Voice as a Privative Feature: Assimilation in Arabic Mahasen Hasan Abu-Mansour 201 Phonemic Pharyngealization Michæl Lambert McOmber 233 Index of Subjects 259 FOREWORD On March 4-5, 1994, the Eighth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics was held at the University of Massachussets at Amherst. The symposium was sponsored by the Arabic Linguistics Society, The University of Massachussets Department of Linguistics, The Near Eastern Area Studies Program, the offices of the Vice-Chancellor for Resea