Comrie Bernard, Eid Mushira (Eds.). Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics III

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991. — 287 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 80).Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Salt Lake City, Utah 1989This is the third in a continuing series of papers presented at the annual meetings of the Arabic Linguistic Society whose primary purpose is to provide a forum for the study of Arabic within current approaches in linguistics. The volume includes a section on Arabic in relation to other languages, with papers ranging from the importance of Arabic to general linguistic theory, and guttural phonology to Arabic loanwords in Acehnese, verbless sentences in Arabic and Hebrew, and a contrastive study of middle and unaccusative constructions in Arabic and English. In the second section of the book, “Grammatical perspectives on Arabic”, topics ranging from causatives in Moroccan Arabic and epenthesis in Makkan Arabic to a computer analysis of Modern Standard Arabic morphology are discussed. The third section, “Socio- and psycholinguistic perspectives”, includes papers on women, men, and linguistic variation, code switching and linguistic accommodation, and agrammatism.Arabic in relation to other languages
On the Importance of Arabic to General Linguistic Theory - Bernard Comrie
Verbless Sentences in Arabic and Hebrew - Mushira Eid
Guttural Phonology - John McCarthy
Arabic Loanwords in Acehnese - Awwad Ahmad Al-Ahmadi Al-Harbi
A Contrastive Study of Middle and Unaccusative Constructions in Arabic and English - Abdelgawad T. MahmoudGrammatical perspectives
Epenthesis in Makkan Arabic: Unsyllabified consonants vs. degenerate syllables - Mahasen Hasan Abu-Mansour
Computer Analysis of Arabic Morphology: A two-level approach with detours - Kenneth R. Beesley
Causatives in Arabic - Elabbas BenmamounSocio- and psycholinguistic perspectives
Women, Men, and Linguistic Variation in the Arab World - Keith Walters
Code-Switching and Linguistic Accommodation in Arabic - Abdel-Rahman Abu-Melhim
Agrammatism in Arabic - Sabah Safi-Stagni