Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVII–XVIII: Alexandria, 2003 and Norman, Oklahoma 2004

PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS XVII–XVIII......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
ISBN......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
EDITORIAL NOTE......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
1. Introduction......Page 18
2. Theoretical Background......Page 19
3. Analysis......Page 21
4. Discussion......Page 37
REFERENCES......Page 39
1. Introduction......Page 44
2. Syllable Patterns and Their Distribution in the Three Varieties......Page 46
3. Previous Analyses......Page 48
4. Moraic Syllable Structure in Arabic......Page 49
5. R-Licensing......Page 53
6. Relevant Constraints......Page 56
7. Analysis: Constraint Interaction......Page 58
8. Conclusion......Page 62
REFERENCES......Page 63
1. Introduction......Page 66
2. Framework of Analysis......Page 68
3. Material......Page 69
4. Results and Discussion......Page 70
5. Conclusions......Page 74
Appendix I......Page 75
REFERENCES......Page 84
1. Introduction......Page 86
4. Results and Discussion......Page 88
5. Conclusion......Page 99
Appendix......Page 100
REFERENCES......Page 101
1. Introduction......Page 102
2. Root Formation in Arabic Lexicon......Page 103
3. The Probabilistic Model......Page 109
REFERENCES......Page 132
1. Actualizing Nouns: A Quick Survey......Page 134
2. First Analysis and Basic Properties......Page 137
3. Light Verbs Constructions as a Source for Other Equivalent Utterances......Page 140
4. The Specific Features of the Actualizing Process in Arabic......Page 145
5. Conclusion......Page 146
REFERENCES......Page 147
1. Introduction......Page 150
2. Lexical Aspect as a Classification of Verbs......Page 151
3. The Active Participle and Lexical Aspect......Page 155
4. Individual-level and Stage-level Statives......Page 163
5. Diagnostics for Achievement Verbs......Page 169
6. Activities and Pseudo-inchoatives......Page 176
7. Accomplishments and Translocatives......Page 182
8. Summary and conclusion......Page 186
REFERENCES......Page 188
1. Introduction......Page 190
2. Text Analysis Stage......Page 192
3. Analyzed Text / Linguistic Database Conversion......Page 199
4. Implementing the Lexicon......Page 201
5. Testing the Lexicon......Page 205
6. Areas of Near-future Refinements......Page 208
REFERENCES......Page 209
1. Introduction......Page 212
2. Political Transition, Linguistic Shift: From bilingual and diglossic discourse to a monolingual discourse......Page 216
3. ‘How to Do Things with Words’: When words are changed......Page 226
4. Whose Voice is it, Anyway? A voice in the making......Page 227
5. Conclusion......Page 233
Appendix 1......Page 234
Appendix 2......Page 239
REFERENCES......Page 240
1. Introduction......Page 242
2. Semantic Agreement Effects......Page 243
3. Agreement in Standard Arabic......Page 247
4. Accounting for Syntactic and Semantic Agreement......Page 248
5. Analysis of First Conjunct Agreement in Arabic......Page 253
6. Conclusion......Page 256
Appendix 1......Page 257
REFERENCES......Page 259
1. Introduction......Page 260
2. The Verbal Derivational System in Moroccan Arabic......Page 261
3. Universal and Typological Paths......Page 263
4. The Study......Page 268
5. Materials and Procedures......Page 269
6. The Results......Page 271
7. Discussion......Page 275
8. Conclusion......Page 282
Appendix 1......Page 284
Appendix 2......Page 285
REFERENCES......Page 286
1. Introduction......Page 290
2. Predictions and Previous Findings......Page 291
3. Methods......Page 299
4. Discussion and Conclusion......Page 319
REFERENCES......Page 326
INDEX OF SUBJECTS......Page 330
The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT)......Page 334