Variable agreement with nonhuman controllers in classical and modern standard Arabic

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Arabic dialects: implications for general linguistics
6. Parametric variation in Arabic dialect phonology 7
7. Vowel shortening in two Arabic dialects 47
8. Extra-Arabic affliations of k -Yemeni 77
9. Shifting boundaries 91
10. Pronouns, Questions, and agreement 107
11. Cariene Arabic auxiliaries and the category AUX 143
12. II. Sociolinguistic perspectives
13. How different are men and women 169
14. A sociolinguistic description of (u:) in korba Arabic 181
15. Code-mixing in the speech of Arabic-English bilinguals 219
16. III. Historical perspectives
17. Variable agreement with nonhuman controllers in classical and modern standard Arabic 245
18. Morphosyntactic analysis in Al-Jumal fii l-na@w 263
19. Index of subjects 279