Eid Mushira, Parkinson Dilworth B. (Eds.). Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics IX

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996. — 258 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 141).Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Washington D.C., 1995This volume includes twelve papers selected from the Ninth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 1995. Three of the papers deal with codeswitching with Arabic, two with the acquisition of Arabic, and four with different aspects of Arabic grammatical structure. The volume also includes three papers presenting data on negation in some Arabic dialects (including those of Yemen, Morocco, Egypt).
The topics are diverse and include Arabic and constraints on codeswitching, verb embeddings and collocations in codeswitching, ellipsis in child language acquisition, clitic left dislocation, parameter resetting in second language acquisition, accessing pharyngeal place, and the derivation of imperatives.Codeswitching with Arabic
Arabic and Constraints on Codeswitching - Carol Myers-Scotton, Janice L. Jake and Maha Okasha
Embedding Verbs and Collocations in Moroccan Arabic/Dutch Codeswitching - Louis Boumans
Codeswitching, Code-mixing, and Borrowing in the Spoken Arabic of a Theatrical Community in Cairo - David WilmsenGrammatical Perspectives
Implicational Dialectology: Second person pronouns and suffixes in Tunisian Arabic - Michael Gibson
Clitic Left Dislocation in Moroccan Arabic - Laïla Lalami
Accessing Pharyngeal Place in Palestinian Arabic - Kimary N. Shahin
The Derivation of the Imperative in Arabic - Elabbas BenmamounThe Acquisition of Arabic
Resetting Parameters in Acquiring Arabic - Naomi Bolotin
Ellipsis as a Mirror of Case and Agreement Principles in Language Acquisition - Lamya AbdulkarimNegation in Arabic
The Negation maašii in a Yaafi'i Dialect (Yemen) - Martine Vanhove
Negation in Some Arabic Dialects of the Tihaamah of the Yemen - Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle
ma-ti'raf xeeri: Verbal negation in Egyptian and Moroccan Arabic proverbs - Elizabeth M. Bergman