Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XXIV-XXV
Subtitle: papers from the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics, Texas, 2010 and Arizona, 2011
By: edited by Samira Farwaneh, University of Arizona ; Hamid Ouali, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Contributors: Farwaneh, Samira, editor of compilation; Ouali, Hamid, editor of compilation; Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (25th : 2011 : University of Arizona)
Series: Studies in Arabic linguistics -- 1
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9789027200297; 9789027270665
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Arabic language; Congresses; Grammar
Description: The majority of the papers in this volume were presented at the Twenty Fourth and Twenty Fifth Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics held at the University Texas in April 2010 and at the University of Arizona in March 2011. One paper is also included from the Twenty Third Annual Symposium.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Geminate representation in Arabic / Stuart Davis and Marwa Ragheb; title: Stress assignment in Makkan Arabic : a stratal-ot analysis / Rawiyah Kabrah; title: Investigating variation in Arabic intonation / Sam Hellmuth; title: The morpheme / -in(n)-/ in central Asian Arabic : conservative versus innovative morphosyntactic strategies / Kerith Miller; title: Variations on the same theme : sentential negation and the negative copula in Arabic / Elabbas Benmamoun, Mahmoud Abunasser, Rania Al-Sabbagh, Abdelaadim Bidaoui, and Dana Shalash; title: Negation and heads : agreement and maximal projections in Palestinian Arabic / Mohammad Mohammad; title: On negative concord in Egyptian and Moroccan Arabic / Hamid Ouali and Usama Soltan; title: On the distribution and licensing of polarity-sensitive items in Egyptian Arabic : the cases of ?ayy and walaa / Usama Soltan; title: Modes of interrogatives entail modes of sluicing : evidence from Emirati Arabic / Tommi Leung.