Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XX: Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 2006

This volume includes twelve papers selected from the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held in 2006 at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. The papers in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues pertaining to Arabic, particularly in the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. These contributions represent the emerging trend of interface research, where linguistic phenomena are investigated using the techniques, methodologies, and theoretical frameworks of different academic fields. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 copyright page......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 EDITORIAL NOTE......Page 8 INTRODUCTION......Page 10 I. PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY......Page 14 1. Introduction......Page 16 3. Non-syncopating North African dialects......Page 17 5. Plurals of CCu and CCi adjectives......Page 19 7. Productive MA nominal plural ablaut......Page 20 8. MA ablaut plurals of nouns (ždi, dlu, žru)......Page 21 9. Productive MA nominal and adjectival diminutive ablaut......Page 24 10. MA diminutives of nouns (dlu, žru, ždi)......Page 25 11. MA diminunitives of adjectives......Page 28 12. Modeling issues I: Creeping quadriliteralization......Page 29 13. Modeling issues II: C2-doubling......Page 30 14. Maps......Page 31 REFERENCES......Page 32 APPENDIX......Page 33 1. Introduction......Page 38 2. Hypocoristic formation in Arabic......Page 41 3. A word-based analysis of hypocoristic formation......Page 46 4. Testing the constraint hierarchy......Page 53 5. Conclusion......Page 60 REFERENCES......Page 61 1. Introduction......Page 64 2. Thematic arity operations......Page 65 3. The verb morphology of Modern Standard Arabic......Page 68 4. The morpho-phonological manifestation of the Lex-Syn Parameter......Page 73 5. Conclusion......Page 78 REFERENCES......Page 79 II. SYNTAX......Page 82 1. Two types of possessives: Introducing the individual-property contrast......Page 84 2. Adnominal possession strategies in EA......Page 85 3. Syntactic asymmetries between IDPs and PDPs in FS possessives in EA......Page 86 4. The IDP-PDP distinction at the syntax-semantics interface......Page 92 REFERENCES......Page 99 1. Introduction......Page 100 2. Resumption......Page 101 3. Paradoxes......Page 104 4. What really matters for reconstruction......Page 106 5. Analysis......Page 111 REFERENCES......Page 117 1. Introduction......Page 118 2. Negation in Palestinian Arabic......Page 119 3. Analytical approaches......Page 136 4. Conclusion......Page 141 REFERENCES......Page 142 III. PSYCHOLINGUISTICS......Page 146 1. Introduction......Page 148 2. Methodology......Page 150 3. Discussion and conclusion......Page 160 APPENDIX A......Page 162 REFERENCES......Page 163 1. Background......Page 166 2. Methods......Page 168 3. Results......Page 170 4. Discussion......Page 176 REFERENCES......Page 177 IV PRAGMATICS......Page 180 1. Introduction......Page 182 2. The Givenness Hierarchy......Page 183 3. Tunisian Arabic demonstratives......Page 185 4. Analysis......Page 189 5. Results and discussion......Page 190 6. Conclusion......Page 198 REFERENCES......Page 199 1. Back-channeling as a dialog skill......Page 200 2. Prosody and turn-taking in Arabic......Page 201 3. Corpus preparation......Page 202 4. Analysis method......Page 207 5. Cues for back-channels......Page 208 6. Examples......Page 209 7. Quantitative description of the downdash feature complex......Page 212 8. Evaluation......Page 213 9. Open questions......Page 214 REFERENCES......Page 217 V. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS......Page 220 1. Introduction......Page 222 2. Background......Page 224 3. Example......Page 225 4. System overview......Page 228 5. The grammar......Page 229 6. Related work......Page 239 8. Future work......Page 241 REFERENCES......Page 242 1. Introduction......Page 246 2. Preprocessing......Page 247 3. Link Grammar......Page 248 4. Results......Page 250 5. Ambiguity and scoring......Page 252 7. Applications and future work......Page 254 REFERENCES......Page 256 INDEX OF SUBJECTS......Page 258 CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY......Page 262