The papers in this volume address core areas in contemporary Arabic linguistics: syntax, phonology, and variation studies. The papers in the syntax sections address different topics from the perspective of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995) and subsequent work. The topics in this section are adverbs and adjectives, resumptive pronouns, gapping and VP deletion, and the morphosyntax of reciprocals. The phonology section consists of a contribution on coarticulation effects of uvular(ized) segments, and of a paper on pharyngealization and uvularization within the framework of Optimality Theory. The sociolinguistics papers in the third section of the volume represent three important lines of inquiry: discourse level variation, stylistic variation, and diachronic variation.
1. Foreword;
2. Introduction;
3. I. Syntactic Perspectives;
4. Layers in
the Distribution of Arabic Adverbs and Adjectives and Their Licensing (by
Fassi Fehri, Abdelkader);
5. The Unoptionality of Resumptive Pronouns: The
Case of Moroccan Arabic (by Elomari, Abdessalam);
6. Gapping and VP Deletion
in Moroccan Arabic (by Kortobi, Ibtissam);
7. Implicit Reciprocals in
Standard Arabic (by LeTourneau, Mark S.);
8. II. Phonological Perspectives;
9. Gradient Uvularization Spread in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic (by Zawaydeh,
Bushra Adnan);
10. Optimized Postvelar Harmony in Palestinian Arabic (by
Shahin, Kimary N.);
11. III. Perspectives on Variation;
12. Reported Speech
in Arabic Journalistic Discourse (by Fakhri, Ahmed);
13. Gender in Linguistic
Variation: The Variable (q) in Damascus Arabic (by Daher, Jamil);
14.
Literary Arabic and Early Hijazi: Contrasts in the Marking of Definiteness
(by Testen, David);
15. Index of Subjects
