Perspectives On Arabic Linguistics: Papers From The Annual Symposium On Arabic Linguistics. Volume Xv: Salt Lake City 2001 (current Issues In Linguistic Theory)

This volume presents papers on the study of Arabic dialects and their implications for general linguistics, as well as papers of a more general nature. Because Arabic dialects are similar in many ways, a study of their differences can help isolate the range of permissible interlinguistic varation (ie the "parameters" of universal grammar). A number of papers in Section I focus on the contribution of dialect studies to a theory of cross-dialectal and cross-linguistic variation; others deal with individual dialects, thus providing data and analyses that can further contribute to our understanding of this type of variation. The papers in Sections II and III of the book are selected from the general session of the sympoisum and address sociolinguistic and historical aspects of Arabic. PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS XV......Page 2 Editorial page ......Page 3 Title page ......Page 4 LCC data ......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 EDITORIAL NOTE......Page 8 INTRODUCTION......Page 10 I. SOCIOLINGUISTICS......Page 12 DISCOURSE PARTICLES REVISITED. THE CASE OF WALLAHI IN EGYPTIAN ARABIC......Page 14 THEORIES OF CODE SWITCHING IN THE LIGHT OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM EGYPT......Page 30 TRANSLATING ARABIC SPEECH ACTION EXPRESSIONS......Page 52 RELATIVE CLAUSES IN SYRIAN ARABIC TWO RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS......Page 64 INTERPRETABILITY, FEATURE STRENGTH, AND IMPOVERISHED AGREEMENT IN ARABIC......Page 96 EVOLUTION OF MSA. THE CASE OF SOME COMPLEMENTARY PARTICLES......Page 146 NP-STRUCTURE TYPES IN SPOKEN AND WRITTEN MODERN STANDARD ARABIC (MSA) CORPORA......Page 160 COMPARING FREQUENCIES OF LEXICAL PRODUCTIONS IN ARABIC WORDS......Page 192 FUTURE VARIABILITY A CORPUS STUDY OF ARABIC FUTURE PARTICLES......Page 202 INDEX OF SUBJECTS......Page 224 The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory......Page 226

this Volume Includes Nine Papers Selected From The Fifteenth Annual Symposium On Arabic Linguistics. Four Of The Papers Deal With The Area Of Corpus Linguistics (new For This Series), Including Papers From Both A Computational And A Variationist Point Of View. The Other Papers Deal With Syntax, And With Various Aspects Of Arabic Sociolinguistics.