Eid Mushira, Holes Clive (Eds.). Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics V

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1993. — 356 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 101).Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Ann Arbor, Michigan 1991The 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' MSA, and the scope of emphaticization in different dialects.
In the section on 'Phonological Perspectives' there are papers dealing with emphasis spread and with gemination/degemination/antigemination in Iraqi Arabic.
The papers in the section on syntax, all focused on MSA and within a GB framework, discuss aspects of Arabic that are problematic for current hypotheses in linguistics, and also more traditional issues such as word order and verbal vs. nominal sentences.
The last two papers represent a historical, comparative Semitic perspective: on the function of energic suffixes, and on the reconstruction of the early Arabic sounds represented by siin and šiin.Variation in Arabic
The use of variation: A study of the political speeches of Gamal Abd al-Nasir - Clive Holes
Knowing standard Arabic: testing Egyptians’ MSA abilities - Dilworth B. Parkinson
Stability and language variation in Arabic: Cairene and Kuwaiti dialects - Alaa Elgibali
The meaning of deflected/strict agreement variation in Cairene Arabic - R. Kirk Belnap
Emphasis spread in two Arabic dialects - Munther A. YounesPhonological Perspectives
Arabic pharyngealization and phonological features - Stuart Davis
Gemination and antigemination in Iraqi - Basim Majdi and Millicent WinstonSyntactic Perspectives
Arabic genitives: A problematic structure for the binding theory - Tamar Kaplan
The copula in modern standard Arabic (SA) - Maher Bahloul
The position of subjects in modern Standard Arabic - Bernadette Plunkett
Case-marking and binding of subject clitics in Arabic complement clauses - Mark S. LeTourneauHistorical Perspectives
On the development of the Energic suffixes - David Testen
Early Arabic siin and šiin in light of the proto-semitic fricative-lateral hypothesis - Henry Churchyard