Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XIX: Urbana, Illinois, April 2005

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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics

Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XIX: Urbana, Illinois, April 2005

Edited by: Elabbas Benmamoun

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2007

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Volume 289 | Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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This volume offers a selection from the papers presented at the 2005 Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The papers cover a variety of topics in Arabic Linguistics, ranging from the lexicon, phonology, syntax and computational linguistics.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Applied Linguistics Forensic Linguistics

Prelim pages Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Elabbas Benmamoun Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Section I. Computational and corpus linguistics
Systematicity in the Arabic Mental Lexicon Ilana Bromberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
Arabic PAPPI: A Principles and Parameters Parser Sandiway Fong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
Corpus-based linguistic analyses: Testing intuitions about Arabic structure and use Salem Ghazali Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
Learning Arabic morphology using statistical constraint-satisfaction models Paul Rodrigues and Damir Ćavar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
Learning to use the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank Otakar Smrž, Petr Pajas, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Jan Hajic, Jiří Mírovský and Petr Němec Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	77
Section II. Phonology, morphology, and syntax
Intonational and rhythmic patterns across the dialect continuum Salem Ghazali, Rym Hamdi and Khouloud Knis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
Roots and patterns in Arabic lexical processing Abdessatar Mahfoudhi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Affrication in North Arabic revisited Eiman Mustafawi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
The syntax of complex tense in Moroccan Arabic Hamid Ouali and Catherine Fortin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Section III. Sociolinguistics and second language acquisition
On agree and postcyclic merge in syntactic derivations: First conjunct agreement in standard Arabic Usama Soltan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
Null subjects use by English and Spanish learners of Arabic as an L2 Mohammad T. Alhawary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
Linguistic diversity: The Qaaf across Arabic dialects Maher Bahloul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
Arabic sociolinguistics and cultural diversity in Morocco Moha Ennaji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
The gendered use of Arabic and other languages in Morocco Fatima Sadiqi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
Index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301

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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.289

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Afro-Asiatic languages; Theoretical linguistics

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