Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XIX: Urbana, Illinois, April 2005 PDF
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PersPectives on ArAbic Linguistics XiX AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE general editor e.F.K. Koerner (Zentrum für Allgemeine sprachwissenschaft, typologie und universalienforschung, berlin) series iv – current issues in Linguistic tHeorY Advisory Editorial Board Lyle campbell (salt Lake city); sheila embleton (toronto) brian D. Joseph (columbus, ohio); John e. Joseph (edinburgh) Manfred Krifka (berlin); e. Wyn roberts (vancouver, b.c.) Joseph c. salmons (Madison, Wis.); Hans-Jürgen sasse (Köln) volume 289 elabbas benmamoun (ed.) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIX Papers from the nineteenth annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Urbana, Illinois, April 2005 PersPectives on ArAbic Linguistics XiX PAPers FroM tHe nineteentH AnnuAL sYMPosiuM on ArAbic Linguistics, urbAnA, iLLinois, APriL 2005 edited by eLAbbAs benMAMoun University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign JoHn benJAMins PubLisHing coMPAnY AMsterDAM/PHiLADeLPHiA (cid:52)(cid:45) The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American (cid:32) national standard for information sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Ansi Z39.48-1984. Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XiX : Papers from the nineteenth annual symposium on Arabic Lin- guistics, urbana, illinois, April 2005 / edited by elabbas benmamoun. (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. series iv, current issues in linguistic theory, issn 0304-0763 ; v. 289) includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978 90 272 4804 6 (Hb; alk. paper) © 2007 – 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. John benjamins Publishing co. • P.o.box 36224 • 1020 Me Amsterdam • The netherlands John benjamins north America • P.o.box 27519 • Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 • usA CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Foreword ix Elabbas Benmamoun Section I: Computational and Corpus Linguistics Systematicity in the Arabic Mental Lexicon 3 Ilana Bromberg Arabic PAPPI: A Principles and Parameters Parser 19 Sandiway Fong Corpus-based Linguistic Analyses: Testing Intuitions about Arabic Structure and Use 37 Salem Ghazali Learning Arabic Morphology Using Statistical Constraint-Satisfaction Models 63 Paul Rodrigues and Damir Ćavar Learning to Use the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank 77 Otakar Smrž, Petr Pajas, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Jan Hajič, Jiří Mírovský, and Petr Němec CONTENTS vi Section II: Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax Intonational and Rhythmic Patterns across the Dialect Continuum 97 Salem Ghazali, Rym Hamdi and Khouloud Knis Roots and Patterns in Arabic Lexical Processing 123 Abdessatar Mahfoudhi Affrication in North Arabic Revisited 151 Eiman Mustafawi The Syntax of Complex Tense in Moroccan Arabic 175 Hamid Ouali and Catherine Fortin On Agree and Postcyclic Merge in Syntactic Derivations: 191 First Conjunct Agreement in Standard Arabic Usama Soltan Section III: Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition Null Subjects Use by English and Spanish 217 Learners of Arabic as an L2 Mohammad T. Alhawary Linguistic Diversity: The Qaaf across Arabic Dialects 247 Maher Bahloul Arabic Sociolinguistics and Cultural Diversity in Morocco 267 Moha Ennaji The Gendered Use of Arabic and Other Languages 277 in Morocco Fatima Sadiqi Index of Subjects 301 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics was held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March 2005. The Symposium was sponsored by the Arabic Linguistic Society and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Additional support was provided by a number of departments and centers at the University of Illinois including the Center for African Studies, the Center for Global Studies, the Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for Advanced Studies, and the Beckman Institute. I am indebted to all the reviewers for their help with the selection and editing of the papers that are included in this volume. I would also like to thank to Hala Jawlakh and Bezza Ayalew for their assistance. FOREWORD The fourteen papers in this volume engage various issues in Arabic linguistics. The majority of the papers rely on quantitative methods to analyze data from corpora or data elicited from speakers using experimentally grounded methods. While most of the papers focus on Standard Arabic, some deal with spoken colloquial dialects from the Maghreb and the Gulf region. Section I includes five papers that deal with computational and corpus-based studies of Arabic. The topic of the paper by Bromberg is the relation between form and meaning. More precisely, the paper studies the correlation between the phonetic form of a word and its meaning in Arabic. Bromberg bases her study on the analysis of 1,000 words selected for their frequency from the Linguistic Data Consortium’s Agence France Press corpus. The author’s aim is to see whether there is predictable similarity along the semantic and phonetic dimensions. She claims that to a certain extent such correlation exists. Then she explores the psycho-linguistics implications of the study, particularly whether the observed systematic relation between form and meaning can facilitate acquisition. The paper by Fong describes the properties of PAPPI, a multilingual parser, as it is implemented to handle Arabic clause structure analyzed in the Principles and Parameters (P&P) framework. The author relies on assumptions and principles posited in the P&P framework to develop a parser that captures patterns that relate to clause structure, word order, agreement, placement of verbs, etc. There aren’t many parsers, in the public domain at least, that have been developed for Arabic using the P&P framework. Ghazali provides a large corpus study of the distribution of a number of Arabic words and grammatical particles. By looking at the collocation and colligation patterns, the author is able to demonstrate that some nearly synonymous words have different distributions depending on the words and expressions they co-occur with. This finding, based on extensive corpus investigations, shows the limits of current studies of the Arabic lexicon based on limited dictionary definitions. The results will be beneficial to researchers and teachers of Arabic alike.
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