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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XI: Atlanta, Georgia, 1997

By Elabbas Benmamoun , Mushira Eid , Niloofar Haeri (Eds.)

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1998
ISBN
9027236720, 9789027236722
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (19128266 bytes)
Series
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 167
Pages
239\237
Time added
2014-06-27 09:48:03

Description

The papers in this volume address core areas in contemporary Arabic linguistics: syntax, phonology, and variation studies. The papers in the syntax sections address different topics from the perspective of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995) and subsequent work. The topics in this section are adverbs and adjectives, resumptive pronouns, gapping and VP deletion, and the morphosyntax of reciprocals. The phonology section consists of a contribution on coarticulation effects of uvular(ized) segments, and of a paper on pharyngealization and uvularization within the framework of Optimality Theory. The sociolinguistics papers in the third section of the volume represent three important lines of inquiry: discourse level variation, stylistic variation, and diachronic variation.

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