Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. The development of future participles and future tense markers from motion predicates 9
5. Yod-dropping in b-imperfect verb forms in Amman 29
6. Syntax
7. Prosodic constituency and locality in Levantine Arabic 47
8. Negation and the subject position in San’ani Arabic 75
9. Splitting Neg: 91
10. Multiple agreement in Arabic 121
11. Cyclic AGREE derives restrictions on cliticization in classical Arabic 135
12. Phonology
13. Secondary stress exist in Cairene Arabic? 163
14. Paradoxical paradigms! Evidence from Lebanese Arabic phonology 185
15. Sociolinguistics
16. The Arabic of Bukhara 213
17. Semantic/Pragmatics
18. Terms of endearment and anger in Levantine Arabic 243
19. Language acquisition
20. On the L1 development of final consonant clusters in Cairene Arabic 263
21. Neurolinguistics
22. Neurocognitive modeling of the two language varieties in Arabic Diglossia 285
23. Index 303