Acknowledgement

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgement vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Phonetics and phonology
6. Phonation and glottal states in Modern South Arabian and San'ani Arabic 3
7. Examining feature economy in Arabic dialects 37
8. L1-English tense-lax vowel system influence on L2-Arabic 63
9. On the status of derived affricates in Arabic dialects 89
10. Syntax
11. On NPIs and QPs in Sason Arabic 107
12. Temporal NPIs and NCIs as adverb phrases 129
13. Clause structure in contact contexts 153
14. The syntax of motion light verbs in Jordanian and Moroccan Arabic 173
15. Cyclic Spell-Out Derived Agreement in Arabic Raising Constructions 193
16. Sociolinguistics
17. (q) as a sociolinguistic variable in the Arabic of Gaza City 229
18. Index 247