Broselow Ellen, Eid Mushira, McCarthy John (Eds.). Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics IV

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1992. — 291 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 85).Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Detroit, Michigan 1990This volume includes papers on the study of Arabic dialects and their implications for general linguistics (Section I), as well of papers of a more general nature (Sections II and III). Because the Arabic dialects are similar in many ways, a study of their differences can help isolate precisely the range of permissible interlinguistic variation (i.e. the “parameters” of universal grammar). A number of papers in Section I focus on the contribution of dialect studies to a theory of crossdialectal and crosslinguistic variation; others focus on 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 volume are selected from the general session of the symposium and address sociolinguistic and historical aspects of Arabic, respectively.Arabic Dialects: Implications for General Linguistics
Parametric variation in Arabic dialect phonology - Ellen Broselow
Vowel shortening in two Arabic dialects - Mahasen Hasan Abu-Mansour
Extra-Arabic affliations of k-Yemeni - David Testen
Shifting boundaries: the effect of MSA on dialect convergence in Baghdad - Farida Abu-Haidar
Pronouns, Questions, and agreement - Mushira Eid
Cariene Arabic auxiliaries and the category AUX - John C. EiseleSociolinguistic Perspectives
How different are men and women: palatalization in Cairo - Niloofar Haeri
A sociolinguistic description of (u:) in korba Arabic: defining linguistic variables in contact situations and relic areas - Keith Walters
Code-mixing in the speech of Arabic-English bilinguals - Ahmad A. AtawnehHistorical Perspectives
Variable agreement with nonhuman controllers in classical and modern standard Arabic - R. Kirk Belnap and Osama Shabaneh
Morphosyntactic analysis in Al-Jumal fii l-na@w: Discourse structure and metalanguage - Karin Ryding