PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS XII -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- I. SYNTAX AND MORPHOSYNTAX -- MODES OF INTERROGATION -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Sentence-Initial Wh-Elements -- 1.1. Wh-interrogatives with gaps -- 1.2 Wh-interrogatives with resumption -- 2. Wh- in situ -- 2.1 One wh-element in situ: Distribution and generalizations -- 2.2 Two wh-elements in situ -- 3. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- CHECKING AND LICENSING INSIDE DP IN PALESTINIAN ARABIC -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Properties of CS -- 3. Morphological Agreement in DPs -- 3.1. Agreement in taba? clauses -- 3.2. The case properties of taba? -- 3.3. The ?em/? abu and saahib constructions -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON LOCALITY AND DISCONTINUITY AGREEMENT AS ACROSS THE BOARD MOVEMENT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Noun Phrase Syntax -- 2.1 Linear covariation -- 2.2 Nonlinear covariation -- 2.3 Structural approach to local dependencies -- 2.4 Representations of the noun phrase -- 3. Noun-Adjective Agreement -- 3.1 Agreement syntax -- 3.1.1 On the rejection of (18) -- 3.1.2 On the rejection of the Mirror Principle -- 3.1.3 On the syntactic transmission of features -- 3.2 Agreement as across the board movement -- 3.2.1 Unification of lexical content -- 3.2.2 Unification entails movement -- 3.2.3 ATB agreement in Arabic -- 3.2.4 Context for ATB -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- II. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS -- ARABIC STEM MORPHOTACTICS VIA FINITE-STATE INTERSECTION -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Concatenative morphotactics -- 1.2 Non-concatenative morphotactics -- 2. Finite-State Morphology -- 2.1 Review of regular expressions -- 2.2 Formalizing patterns -- 2.3 An executable finite-state script -- 3. Practical Application -- 3.1 History of computing Semitic stems via intersection -- 3.2 The Xerox Arabic morphological analyzer.

REFERENCES -- COMPUTATIONAL TOOL FOR DEVELOPING MORPHOPHONOLOGICAL MODELS FOR ARABIC -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Computational Morphology -- 3. How to Encode the Lexicon -- 4. How to Encode Rules -- 5. How to Encode Morphotactics -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- III. PHONOLOGY AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- HYPOCORISTIC FORMATION IN AMMANI-JORDANIAN ARABIC -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. An Optimality-Theoretic Analysis -- 4. Problematic Cases -- 5. Implications and Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON ?INNA, ?ANNA, ET ALIA -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Arabic ?inna and ?anna -- 1.2 Obsolescent constructions with ?an and ?in -- 2. Problems in Comparative Semitic Phonology -- 2.1 The initial laryngeal -- 2.2 'Lightened' vs. 'heavy' forms -- 2.3 The Proto-Semitic syllabic of the *n-particle -- 3. The Semitic *l-Particle -- 4. Synthesis -- REFERENCES -- IV. SOCIOLINGUISTICS -- (θ) AND (o) AS TERNARY AND BINARY VARIABLES IN DAMASCENE ARABI -- 1. Introduction and Background -- 2. The Factor of Prestige -- 3. The Present Study -- 4. Data Collection and Methodology -- 5. Analysis of the Data for Ternary (θ)/(o) -- 6. Analysis of the Data for Binary (θ)/(o) -- 7. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- TESTING LEXICAL DIFFERENCE IN REGIONAL STANDARD ARABICS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ibrahim's Lexical Items -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Items showing a strong pattern of support for the claim -- 3.2 Items showing a weak pattern of support for the claim -- 3.3 Items not showing support for the claim -- 3.4 Items with non-significant results -- 4. Using the Genre Information -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 The study of regional standards -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS.