Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume II: Salt Lake City, Utah 1988

345 Pages·1990·26.63 MB·English

by  Mushira Eid

PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS II
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND
HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
General Editor
E.F. KONRAD KOERNER
(University of Ottawa)
Series IV - CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
Advisory Editorial Board
Henning Andersen (Los Angeles); Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles)
Thomas V. Gamkrelidze (Tbilisi); Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin)
J. Peter Maher (Chicago); Ernst Pulgram (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Danny Steinberg (Hanna Saitama)
Volume 72
Mushira Eid and John McCarthy (eds)
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics II
PERSPECTIVES ON
ARABIC LINGUISTICS II
PAPERS FROM
THE SECOND ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS
Edited by
MUSHIRA EID
University of Utah
Salt Lake City
and
JOHN MCCARTHY
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Mass.
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY
AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA
1990
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (2nd : 1988 : University of Utah)
Perspectives on Arabic linguistics II : papers from the Second Annual Symposium on
Arabic Linguistics / edited by Mushira Eid and John McCarthy.
p. cm. - (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science.
Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763; v. 72)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Arabic language-Grammar-Congresses. 2. Arabic language- Semantics-Congres­
ses. I. Eid, Mushira. II. McCarthy, John J., 1953- . III. Title. IV. Series.
PJ6106.S9884 1988
492\7--dc20 90-752
ISBN 90 272 3570 8 (Eur.) /1-55619-128-6 (US) (alk. paper) CIP
© Copyright 1990 - John Benjamins B.V.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or
any other means, without written permission from the publisher.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
Editorial Note ix
Introduction xi
Mushira Eid & John McCarthy
I. MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHONOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Prosodic Morphology and Templatic Morphology 1
John McCarthy & Alan Prince
Doubled Verbs in Modern Standard Arabic 55
John Moore
Arabic Broken Plurals: Arguments for a two-fold
classification of morphology 94
Robert R. Ratcliffe
Well-Formed Associations in Arabic: Rule or condition? 120
Samira Farwaneh
Levantine Cyclogenesis 143
C. Douglas Johnson
Epenthesis, Gemination, and Syllable Structure 167
Mahasen H. Abu-Mansour
CONTENTS
II. SEMANTIC PERSPECTIVES
Aspectual Classification of Verbs in Cairene Arabic 192
John Eisele
Connectives as Cohesive Elements in a Modem Expository
Arabic Text 234
Mahmoud Al-Batal
III. SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES
Orthographic Variation in Modem Standard Arabic:
The case of the hamza 269
Dilworth Parkinson
'Foreigner Talk': Evidence for the universality of language
simplification 296
Adel L Tweissi
Index of Subjects 327
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The preparation of the final copy of the volume was done at the
Middle East Center of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. We
would like to acknowledge the support the Center has provided
throughout the editorial process—support in terms of computer
equipment and software, copying, and secretarial time. In particular,
we would like to acknowledge the editorial assistance o fTessa Hauglid
of the Middle East Center staff—her patience, efficiency, and interest
in the volume.

EDITORIAL NOTE
The papers in this volume were presented at the Second Annual
Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, which was held at the University of
Utah, Salt Lake City, March 4-5, 1988. During the symposium the
Arabic Linguistic Society was formally established, and these annual
symposia have now become a function of the Society. The papers
presented at the symposium were selected on the basis of an
anonymous review of abstracts submitted to the Program Committee.
The papers submitted were further reviewed and edited before their
final acceptance for publication.
The transcription of all Arabic materials in the body of the
papers follows the International Phonetic Alphabet, or standard
equivalents. The Arabic emphatics are represented by a dot underneath
the symbol, and long vowels as sequences of two vowels. For the
citation of Arabic book titles in the reference sections, however, a
transliteration system based on standard usage in Arabic and Middle
East Studies journals has been adopted with some simplifications in the
use of diacritics. Vowel length, for example, is not marked. The
symbol ' represents the hamza and ' represents the 'ayn. We assume
that if the reader knows Arabic, s/he will be able to supply
information represented by the diacritics.