Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Syntactic Perspectives
6. Things are not what they seem 7
7. Extending the NegP hypothesis 31
8. Negative polarity and presupposition in Arabic 47
9. Negation in French and Tunesian Arabic 67
10. Binding in Arabic and the lexical clause 85
11. The interaction of causativity and reflexivity in derived Arabic verbs 99
12. II. Perspectives on variation
13. Arabic speakers’ resetting of parameters 135
14. Diglossia, linguistic variation, and language change in Arabic 157
15. III. Phonological perspectives
16. Voice as aprivate feature 201
17. Phonemic Pharyngealization 233
18. Index of Subjects 259