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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics : Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume V: Ann Arbor, Michigan 1991.
The papers in the first section of this volume, 'Variation in Arabic', deal with a wide range of topics: the function of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) vs. dialect variation in political speeches, patterns of variation in concord in Cairene dialect, the extent to which Cairenes 'know�...
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS V; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; I. VARIATION IN ARABIC; THE USES OF VARIATION: A STUDY OF THE POLITICAL SPEECHES OF GAMAL ABD AL-NASIR; KNOWING STANDARD ARABIC: TESTING EGYPTIANS' MSA ABILITIES; STABILITY AND LANGUAGE VARIATION IN ARABIC: CAIRENE AND KUWAITI DIALECTS; THE MEANING OF DEFLECTED/STRICT AGREEMENT VARIATION IN CAIRENE ARABIC; EMPHASIS SPREAD IN TWO ARABIC DIALECTS; II. PHONOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES; ARABIC PHARYNGEALIZATION AND PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES; GEMINATION AND ANTIGEMINATION IN IRAQI.
- III. SYNTACTIC PERSPECTIVESARABIC GENITIVES: A PROBLEMATIC STRUCTURE FOR THE BINDING THEORY; THE COPULA IN MODERN STANDARD ARABIC (SA); THE POSITION OF SUBJECTS IN MODERN STANDARD ARABIC; CASE-MARKING AND BINDING OF SUBJECT CLITICS IN ARABIC COMPLEMENT CLAUSES; IV. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES; ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENERGIC SUFFIXES; EARLY ARABIC siin AND iin IN LIGHT OF THE PROTO-SEMITIC FRICATIVE-LATERAL HYPOTHESIS; INDEX OF SUBJECTS.