Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX papers from the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 2006 (John Benjamins Pub. Co, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX; Editorial page; Title page; copyright page; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL NOTE; INTRODUCTION; I. PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY; STRETCHING ABLAUT; HYPOCORISTICS REVISITED; MORPHOLOGY AND THEMATIC ARITY OPERATIONS; II. SYNTAX; ON THE INDIVIDUAL-PROPERTY CONTRAST IN FREE STATE POSSESSIVE NOMINALS IN EGYPTIAN ARABIC; RECONSTRUCTION AND ISLANDHOOD IN JORDANIAN ARABIC; AN ARABIC WACKERNAGEL CLITIC?; III. PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; THE SPLIT-INFL HYPOTHESIS; LEXICAL PROCESSING IN TWO LANGUAGE VARIETIES; IV PRAGMATICS.
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, computationallinguistics, 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