Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Transliteration Symbols -- Abbreviations -- 1. Description of Target Morphosyntactic Structures -- 1.1 Arabic Word Structure -- 1.1.1 Root and Base Form -- 1.1.2 Gender of Nouns and Adjectives -- 1.2 Nominal Inflectional Agreement Features -- 1.2.1 Agreement within NPs -- 1.3 Equational (Verbless) Sentence Structure -- 1.3.1 Past Tense of Equational (Verbless) Sentences -- 1.3.2 Negation of Equational (Verbless) Sentences -- 1.4 Verbal Inflectional Agreement Features -- 1.4.1 Verbal Agreement, Tense, and Null Subjects -- 1.4.2 Verbal Negation -- 1.5 Summary -- 2. Existing Arabic Second Language Acquisition Research -- 2.1 Contrastive and Error Analysis Studies -- 2.2 Performance/Developmental Studies -- 2.3 Developmental, Interlanguage, and Current Models -- 2.4 Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar -- 2.5 Summary -- 3. The Acquisition of Gender Agreement -- 3.1 Methods (Longitudinal Data) -- 3.1.1 Results of Nominal and Verbal Gender Agreement -- 3.1.2 Results of Demonstrative Gender Agreement -- 3.2 Methods (Cross-Sectional Data) -- 3.2.1 Results of Verbal (Gender) Agreement -- 3.2.2 Results of Nominal (Gender) Agreement -- 3.2.3 Results of Nominal versus Verbal Agreement -- 3.2.4 Results of Demonstrative Gender Agreement -- 3.3 Summary -- 4. The Acqusition of Tense/Aspect and Verbal Agreement -- 4.1 Methods (Cross-Sectional Data) -- 4.2 Results -- 4.2.1 Tense (Narrative Tasks) -- 4.2.2 Verbal Agreement (Narrative Tasks) -- 4.2.3 Tense and Verbal Agreement (Random Task) -- 4.3 Summary -- 5. The Acquisition of Null Subjects -- 5.1 Methods (Cross-Sectional Data) -- 5.2 Results -- 5.2.1 Null Subjects Production -- 5.2.2 Null Subjects and Verbal Agreement Production -- 5.3 Summary -- 6. The Acquisition of Negation, Mood, and Case -- 6.1 Methods (Longitudinal Data).

6.1.1 Participants -- 6.1.2 Formal Classroom Input -- 6.1.3 Data Collection and Coding -- 6.2 Results -- 6.2.1 Emergence Criterion -- 6.2.2 Negation Construction with la and the Indicative Mood -- 6.2.3 Negation Constructions with ma and lam and the Jussive Mood -- 6.2.4 Negation Construction with Ian and the Subjunctive Mood -- 6.2.5 ?an Construction and the Subjunctive Mood -- 6.2.6 Case within kana and laysa Constructions -- 6.3 Summary -- 7. Theoretical Implications -- 7.1 L2 Learnability and Processability -- 7.2 L1 Transfer and UG Access -- 7.3 Ultimate Attainment and Near Nativeness -- 7.4 The Split-INFL Hypothesis: More on L1 Transfer -- 7.5 Null Subjects and Setting of Parameters: More on UG Access and L1 Transfer -- 7.6 Summary and Areas of Future Research -- 8. Pedagogical and Applied Implications -- 8.1 Acquisition Tendencies of the Target Structures -- 8.1.1 Gender of Nouns -- 8.1.2 Gender of Adjectives -- 8.1.3 Gender of Demonstrative Pronouns -- 8.1.4 Verbal Agreement -- 8.1.5 Tense (Past and Present) -- 8.1.6 Negation -- 8.1.7 Case and Mood -- 8.2 Other Contributing Acquisition Factors -- 8.3 Who Can Benefit from the Findings -- 8.3.1 Syllabus Construction: Scheduling Learning Objectives -- 8.3.2 Arabic Foreign Language Pedagogy and Teacher Preparation -- 8.3.3 Foreign Language Proficiency Testing -- 8.4 Summary and Areas of Future Research -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- C -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- T -- U -- References -- Index -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.