Eid Mushira (Ed.). Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics I

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1990. — 308 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 63).Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Salt Lake City, Utah 1987This volume provides a general perspective on aspects of Arabic in relation to various areas of linguistics. To the general linguist, it is a source of information and data on Arabic analyzed within current models of analysis; to the Arabic linguist, it provides current analyses of both familiar and new data. The book is divided into three sections, which contain exciting papers on Arabic syntax (mostly within Government-Binding theory), textual analysis, and psycholinguistics. The volume opens with an overview of the current state of Arabic linguistics by the Editor and a major presentation by Charles Ferguson.Overview
Arabic linguistics: The current scene - Mushira Eid
“Come forth with a Surah like it”: Arabic as a measure of Arab society - Charles A. FergusonGrammatical Prespectives
Sound plural and broken plural assignment in classical Arabic - Mohamad Z. Abd-Rabbo
The problem of subject-verb agreement in Arabic: towards a solution - Mohammad A. Mohammad
Word order and proper government in classical Arabic - Basim Majdi
Bound anaphora in Egyptian Arabic - Mariam H. Osman
Time reference, tense, and formal aspect in Cairene Arabic - John C. EiseleTextual Analysis Prespectives
‘Orality’ and discourse structure in modern standard Arabic - Barbara Johnstone
Loss of nominal case endings in the modern Arabic dialects: evidence from Palestinian Christian middle Arabic texts - Ann M. Gruber-MillerPsycholinguistic Prespectives
Bilingual linguistic memory - Shadia A. Tel
Slips of the tongue in Arabic - Sabah Safi-Stagni