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This volume includes twelve papers selected from the Ninth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 1995. Three of the papers deal with codeswitching with Arabic, two with the acquisition of Arabic, and four with different aspects of Arabic grammatical structure. The volume also includes three papers presenting data on negation in some Arabic dialects (including those of Yemen, Morocco, Egypt). The topics are diverse and include Arabic and constraints on codeswitching, verb embeddings and collocations in codeswitching, ellipsis in child language acquisition, clitic left dislocation, parameter resetting in second language acquisition, accessing pharyngeal place, and the derivation of imperatives.
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PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS IX
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)
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Mushira Eid and Dilworth Parkinson (eds) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics IX
PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS IX PAPERS FROM THE NINTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS
Edited by
MUSHIRA EID The University of Utah, Salt Lake City
DILWORTH PARKINSON Brigham Young University, Provo
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Mushira Eid and Dilworth Parkinson (eds) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics IX Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 141) ISBN 90 272 3645 3 (Eur.) / 1-55619-596-6 (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 L
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Codeswitching with Arabic
Arabic and Constraints on Codeswitching Carol Myers-Scotton, Janice L. Jake, & Maha Okasha Embedding Verbs and Collocations in Moroccan Arabic/Dutch Codeswitching Louis Boumans
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Codeswitching, Code-mixing, and Borrowing in the Spoken Arabic of a Theatrical Community in Cairo David Wilmsen
69
II.
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Grammatical Perspectives
Implicational Dialectology: Second person pronouns and suffixes in Tunisian Arabic Michael Gibson
95
Clitic Left Dislocation in Moroccan Arabic Latta Lalami
115
Accessing Pharyngeal Place in Palestinian Arabic Kimary N. Shahin
131
The Derivation of the Imperative in Arabic E labbas Benmamoun
151
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The Acquisition of Arabic
Resetting Parameters in Acquiring Arabic Naomi Bolotin Ellipsis as a Mirror of Case and Agreement Principles in Language Acquisition Lamya Abdulkarim IV.
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Negation in Arabic
The Negation maašii in a Yaafi'i Dialect (Yemen) Martine Vanhove
195
Negation in Some Arabic Dialects of the Tihaamah of the Yemen Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle
207
ma-ti'raf xeeri: Verbal nega