Publisher's Synopsis
The papers in this volume are a selection of papers presented at the 10th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (Salt Lake City, 1-3 March 1996). The contributions are: Remarks on Focus in Standard Arabic: Jamal Ouhalla ; Definiteness Realization and Function in Palestinian Arabic: Dina Belyayeva ; Case Properties of Nominalization Dps in Classical Arabic: Arthur Stepanov ; Underspecification of Lexical Entries for Arabic Verbs: Mark S. LeTourneau ; Plural Formation in Arabic: Ali Idrissi ; Prosodic Templates in a Word-Based Morphological Analysis of Arabic: Robert R. Ratcliffe ; The Suppletive Imperative of Arabic 'Come': David Testen ; On an Optimality-Theoretic Account of Epenthesis and Syncope in Arabic Dialects: Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh ; Acoustics of Pharyngealization vs. Uvularization Harmony: Kimary N. Shahin ; Phonological Variation in Syrian Arabic: Correlation with Gender, Age, and Education: Jamil Daher ; Arabic speakers and Parasitic Gaps: Naomi Bolotin ; Stress Prosody and Speech Segmentation: Evidence from Moroccan Arabic: Younes Mourchid .
