Perspectives On Arabic Linguistics: Papers From The Annual Symposium On Arabic Linguistics. Volume Xvi: , Cambridge, March 2002 (current Issues In Linguistic Theory)

'The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held in Cambridge, UK, in 2002. They deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in varieties of Arabic.' This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, contact-induced language change and its gradations, discourse management via tense-aspect particles, language genesis, substratal transfer, and Universal Grammar, and cover a w. This volume is a selection of 15 papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. They demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, discourse management, language genesis and universal grammar.