Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Part I. Sociolinguistics
6. Palestinian Arabic in the diaspora 3
7. Dialect contact and change in the Arabic feminine ending morpheme 27
8. Variability of nominal genitives in Casablanca Moroccan Arabic 51
9. Part II. Phonetics and phonology
10. Plain-emphatic R phonemes in Arabic 77
11. Some grammatical features of Faifi Arabic with a focus on emphatic fricatives 99
12. Part III. Syntax
13. The imperfective verb and the progressive aspect in Arabic 121
14. Remnant-movement analysis of questions with final wh-words in Jordanian Arabic 147
15. Part IV. First language acquisition
16. Tracing the acquisition of definiteness in Emirati Arabic 169
17. Index 199