Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VII: Austin, Texas 1993

PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS VII......Page 2
Editorial page
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Title page
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Copyright page
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Table of contents......Page 6
FOREWORD......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
I. AGREEMENT IN ARABIC......Page 14
1.1.1 Arabic......Page 16
1.1.2 Other languages......Page 17
1.3 Generalizations......Page 19
2.1 Incorporation......Page 20
2.2 Different verb movements for each word order......Page 22
2.3 A parametric solution......Page 24
2.4 Summary......Page 26
3.1 The minimalist program......Page 27
3.2.1 The Arabic SVO/VSO alternation......Page 29
3.2.2 Rich VSO vs. poor VSO agreement......Page 31
3.2.3 Generalizations......Page 32
3.3 Adjectival agreement......Page 33
3.4 Agreement asymmetries in other languages......Page 34
REFERENCES......Page 35
1. Introduction to the Problem......Page 38
2.1 Quantifiers as X0 Lexical Heads......Page 41
2.2 Quantifiers as X0 Functional Heads......Page 43
2.3 Problems with Alternative Analyses......Page 47
2.4 Quantifiers as NumP Heads......Page 48
3.1 Nominative Case Assignment by Inflection......Page 56
3.2 Number Agreement between Subject and Verb......Page 61
4. Implications of the Analysis......Page 63
5. Conclusion......Page 64
REFERENCES......Page 65
0. Introduction......Page 68
1. Resumptive Pronouns as Parasitic Gap Licensers......Page 69
1.1 Resumptive pronouns in wh-questions......Page 70
1.2 Resumptive pronouns in wh-relatives......Page 71
2. A Wh-in-situ as a Parasitic gap Licenser......Page 73
3. Conclusion......Page 76
REFERENCES......Page 77
1. Introduction......Page 78
2. Negation in Palestinian Arabic......Page 79
3. The Negation Paradigm in Early Child Palestinian......Page 87
4. The Structure and Derivation of Negative Sentences in Early Child Palestinian......Page 91
5. Conclusions......Page 97
REFERENCES......Page 98
II. PERSPECTIVES FROM EXPERIMENT-BASED STUDIES......Page 100
1. Introduction......Page 102
2. Case History......Page 105
3. The Experiment......Page 106
4. The Results and Discussion......Page 108
5. Conclusion......Page 113
REFERENCES......Page 114
2.1 Background on the pause-break task......Page 116
2.2 The Arabic pause-break study......Page 118
3.1 Background on the SSJ task......Page 120
3.2.1 Procedure......Page 121
3.2.2 Analysis and results......Page 122
4. Summary and Conclusions......Page 126
REFERENCES......Page 127
1.1 Syllable Weight and Syllable Structures......Page 128
2.1 CVVC/CVCC Asymmetry......Page 130
2.2 A constraint-based analysis......Page 132
3. The Phonetics of CVVC Syllables: Duration data......Page 135
3.1 Methods......Page 136
3.2 Analysis......Page 137
4. Hindi......Page 139
5. Conclusion......Page 141
Appendix II......Page 143
REFERENCES......Page 147
III. OTHER PERSPECTIVES......Page 148
1. Background and Purpose......Page 150
2. Data and Measurements......Page 152
3.1 Referential distance......Page 153
3.2 Persistence......Page 155
4.1 The neutralization of agreement......Page 158
4.2 Topic continuity and waaw lhaal......Page 160
4.3 Topic continuity and the particle Pinna......Page 161
5. Conclusion......Page 162
REFERENCES......Page 163
1.1 Vowel shortening in Arabic......Page 166
1.2 Rural Palestinian Arabic......Page 168
2.1 Open Syllable Shortening......Page 169
2.2 Open syllable shortening in Rural Palestinian Arabic......Page 173
2.4 OSS before CVCCC's......Page 174
2.6 Domain of OSS: The iambic foot......Page 176
2.7 OSS and syllable types......Page 178
3. Conclusion......Page 179
REFERENCES......Page 180
0. Introduction......Page 182
2.1 Infixation causes discontinuity......Page 183
2.3 Infixation is concatenatory......Page 185
3. The Lexical Root......Page 187
4. Edge-based Derivations: Form I......Page 190
5. Form II......Page 192
6. Form III......Page 193
7. Form IV......Page 194
9. The X-Affix System......Page 196
10. Summary......Page 197
REFERENCES......Page 198
Index of Subjects......Page 200