PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS XVII-XVIII -- Editorial page -- Title page -- ISBN -- CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL NOTE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE LENGTH OF STEM-FINAL VOWELS IN COLLOQUIAL ARABIC -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Background -- 3. Analysis -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- MORAIC SYLLABLE STRUCTURE AND EDGE EFFECTS IN ARABIC -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syllable Patterns and Their Distribution in the Three Varieties -- 3. Previous Analyses -- 4. Moraic Syllable Structure in Arabic -- 5. R-Licensing -- 6. Relevant Constraints -- 7. Analysis: Constraint Interaction -- 8. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE STRUCTURE OF ARABIC INTONATION A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Framework of Analysis -- 3. Material -- 4. Results and Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- Appendix I -- REFERENCES -- PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN CONNECTED SPEECH IN COLLOQUIAL EGYPTIAN ARABIC -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Purpose and Importance -- 3. Method -- 4. Results and Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Appendix -- REFERENCES -- ROOT FORMATION AND POLYSEMIC ORGANIZATION IN ARABIC LEXICON -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Root Formation in Arabic Lexicon -- 3. The Probabilistic Model -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- LIGHT VERBS IN STANDARD AND EGYPTIAN ARABIC -- 1. Actualizing Nouns: A Quick Survey -- 2. First Analysis and Basic Properties -- 3. Light Verbs Constructions as a Source for Other Equivalent Utterances -- 4. The Specific Features of the Actualizing Process in Arabic -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- RETHINKING LEXICAL ASPECT IN EGYPTIAN ARABIC -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexical Aspect as a Classification of Verbs -- 3. The Active Participle and Lexical Aspect -- 4. Individual-level and Stage-level Statives -- 5. Diagnostics for Achievement Verbs -- 6. Activities and Pseudo-inchoatives -- 7. Accomplishments and Translocatives.

8. Summary and conclusion -- REFERENCES -- BUILDING A COMPUTATIONAL LEXICON FOR ARABIC -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Text Analysis Stage -- 3. Analyzed Text / Linguistic Database Conversion -- 4. Implementing the Lexicon -- 5. Testing the Lexicon -- 6. Areas of Near-future Refinements -- 7. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- POLITICAL TRANSITION, LINGUISTIC SHIFT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Political Transition, Linguistic Shift: From bilingual and diglossic discourse to a monolingual discourse -- 3. 'How to Do Things with Words': When words are changed -- 4. Whose Voice is it, Anyway? A voice in the making -- 5. Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- REFERENCES -- AGREEMENT ALTERNATIONS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Semantic Agreement Effects -- 3. Agreement in Standard Arabic -- 4. Accounting for Syntactic and Semantic Agreement -- 5. Analysis of First Conjunct Agreement in Arabic -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- REFERENCES -- ACQUISITION OF ARABIC WORD FORMATION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Verbal Derivational System in Moroccan Arabic -- 3. Universal and Typological Paths -- 4. The Study -- 5. Materials and Procedures -- 6. The Results -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- REFERENCES -- L2 ACQUISITION OF ARABIC MORPHOSYNTACTIC FEATURES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Predictions and Previous Findings -- 3. Methods -- 4. Discussion and Conclusion -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT).