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The papers in this volume are a selection of papers presented at the 10th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (Salt Lake City, 1-3 March 1996). The contributions are: Remarks on Focus in Standard Arabic: Jamal Ouhalla; Definiteness Realization and Function in Palestinian Arabic: Dina Belyayeva; Case Properties of Nominalization Dps in Classical Arabic: Arthur Stepanov; Underspecification of Lexical Entries for Arabic Verbs: Mark S. LeTourneau; Plural Formation in Arabic: Ali Idrissi; Prosodic Templates in a Word-Based Morphological Analysis of Arabic: Robert R. Ratcliffe; The Suppletive Imperative of Arabic ‘Come’: David Testen; On an Optimality-Theoretic Account of Epenthesis and Syncope in Arabic Dialects: Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh; Acoustics of Pharyngealization vs. Uvularization Harmony: Kimary N. Shahin; Phonological Variation in Syrian Arabic: Correlation with Gender, Age, and Education: Jamil Daher; Arabic speakers and Parasitic Gaps: Naomi Bolotin; Stress Prosody and Speech Segmentation: Evidence from Moroccan Arabic: Younes Mourchid.
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PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS X
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 (Edinburgh) 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 Robert R. Ratcliffe (eds) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics X
PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS X PAPERS FROM THE TENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS
Edited by
MUSHIRA EID The University of Utah, Salt Lake City
ROBERT R. RATCLIFFE Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo
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Mushira Eid and Robert R. Ratcliffe (eds) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics X Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 153, ISBN 90 272 3658 5 (Eur.) / 1-55619-869-8 (US) (alk. paper) © Copyright 1997 - 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.
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Discourse and Syntactic Perspectives
Remarks on Focus in Standard Arabic Jamal Ouhalla Definiteness Realization and Function in Palestinian Arabic Dina Belyayeva Case Properties of Nominalization DPs in Classical Arabic
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Arthur Stepanov II.
Morphological Perspectives
Underspecification of Lexical Entries for Arabic Verbs Mark S. LeTourneau Plural Formation in Arabic Ali Idrissi Prosodic Templates in a Word-Based Morphological Analysis of Arabic Robert R. Ratcliffe The Suppletive Imperative of Arabic "Come" David Testen
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Phonetic and Phonological Perspectives
On an Optimality-Theoretic Account of Epenthesis and Syncope in Arabic Dialects Bushra Adrian Zawaydeh Acoustics of Pharyngealization vs. Uvularization Harmony Kimary N. Shahin Phonologica