Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume IX: Washington D.C., 1995

258 Pages·1996·20.41 MB·English

by  Mushira Eid

PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS IX
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); John E. Joseph (Hong Kong)
Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin); Ernst Pulgram (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Danny Steinberg (Tokyo)
Volume 141
Mushira Eid and Dilworth Parkinson (eds)
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics IX
PERSPECTIVES ON
ARABIC LINGUISTICS IX
PAPERS FROM
THE NINTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON
ARABIC LINGUISTICS
Edited by
MUSHIRA EID
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City
DILWORTH PARKINSON
Brigham Young University, Provo
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Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Introduction 1
L Codeswitching with Arabic
Arabic and Constraints on Codeswitching 9
Carol Myers-Scotton, Janice L. Jake, & Maha Okasha
Embedding Verbs and Collocations in Moroccan Arabic/Dutch 45
Codeswitching
Louis Boumans
Codeswitching, Code-mixing, and Borrowing in the Spoken
Arabic of a Theatrical Community in Cairo 69
David Wilmsen
II. Grammatical Perspectives
Implicational Dialectology: Second person pronouns and
suffixes in Tunisian Arabic 95
Michael Gibson
Clitic Left Dislocation in Moroccan Arabic 115
Latta Lalami
Accessing Pharyngeal Place in Palestinian Arabic 131
Kimary N. Shahin
The Derivation of the Imperative in Arabic 151
E labbas Benmamoun
ΠΙ. The Acquisition of Arabic
Resetting Parameters in Acquiring Arabic 167
Naomi Bolotin
Ellipsis as a Mirror of Case and Agreement Principles in
Language Acquisition 179
Lamya Abdulkarim
IV. Negation in Arabic
The Negation maašii in a Yaafi'i Dialect (Yemen) 195
Martine Vanhove
Negation in Some Arabic Dialects of the Tihaamah
of the Yemen 207
Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle
ma-ti'raf xeeri: Verbal negation in Egyptian and Moroccan
Arabic proverbs 223
Elizabeth M. Bergman
Index of Subjects 247
FOREWORD
On March 10-12, 1995, the Ninth Annual Symposium on Arabic
Linguistics was held at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. The
symposium was sponsored by the Arabic Linguistics Society,
Georgetown University's School of Languages and Linguistics and its
Department of Arabic, and the University of Utah.
A total of sixteen papers were presented at the symposium; of
these, nine are published in this volume. The papers presented at the
symposium were selected on the basis of an anonymous review of
abstracts submitted to the Program Committee. The papers included in
the volume were further reviewed by the editors before their final
acceptance for publication. In addition, a workshop was organized for
the first time with the purpose of presenting data on a particular topic.
The topic for the ninth symposium was negation in Arabic. Six papers
were presented at the conference; of these, three are published in this
volume.
The transcription of all Arabic materials in the body of the papers
follows the International Phonetic Alphabet or standard equivalents.
The Arabic emphatics, however, are represented by a dot underneath
the symbol, and long vowels as sequences of two vowels. The
transliteration of Arabic names and titles follows accepted formats,
with some simplification in the use of diacritics. We have used ' and '
for hamza (glottal stop) and 'ayn (pharyngeal approximant),
respectively.
The preparation and printing of the final manuscript was done
using facilities available at the Middle East Center of the University of
Utah, Salt Lake City. I am indebted to Tessa Hauglid, who has served
as assistant editor as well as copy editor for this volume. I also thank
Karin Ryding for organizing the symposium at Georgetown
University.

INTRODUCTION
MUSHIRA EID
University of Utah
DILWORTH PARKINSON
Brigham Young University
The study of codeswitching has been the topic of many recent
linguistic investigations into the nature and purpose of this behavior.
It has been approached from a variety of perspectives, depending on
the background and linguistic orientation of the investigator.
Intrasentential codeswitching, or the alternating use of more than one
variety of language within the same sentence, has received more
attention lately because of the potential it has for showing how
linguistic conflicts may be resolved when two or more systems
interact within the speech of an individual or a community of
speakers. The three papers in Section I of this volume address this
aspect of codeswitching. The first two papers deal with bilingual
codeswitching, whereas the third deals with codeswitching between
varieties of Arabic (colloquial and standard).
The first paper, by Carol Myers-Scotton, Janice Jake, and Maha
Okasha—based on the keynote address presented at the symposium—
examines codeswitching data involving Arabic and three other
languages (English, French, Dutch). Using the Matrix Language
Frame model, they propose to illustrate the explanatory value of this
model by focusing on the analysis of Pronoun Doubling in
codeswitching with Arabic: the doubling of the subject pronoun such
that the first pronoun is always from Arabic. Their analysis is based
on a distinction between matrix and embedded language. The matrix
language, for example, sets the grammatical frame in mixed