Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX -- Editorial page -- Title page -- copyright page -- CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL NOTE -- INTRODUCTION -- I. PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY -- STRETCHING ABLAUT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The historical sound shifts -- 3. Non-syncopating North African dialects -- 4. Adaptation strategies -- 5. Plurals of CCu and CCi adjectives -- 6. Inherited plurals of CCu and CCi nouns -- 7. Productive MA nominal plural ablaut -- 8. MA ablaut plurals of nouns (ždi, dlu, žru) -- 9. Productive MA nominal and adjectival diminutive ablaut -- 10. MA diminutives of nouns (dlu, žru, ždi) -- 11. MA diminutives of adjectives (μma, ħlu, nqi, tri) -- 12. Modeling issues I: Creeping quadriliteralization -- 13. Modeling issues II: C2-doubling -- 14. Maps -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- HYPOCORISTICS REVISITED -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hypocoristic formation in Arabic -- 3. A word-based analysis of hypocoristic formation -- 4. Testing the constraint hierarchy -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- MORPHOLOGY AND THEMATIC ARITY OPERATIONS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Thematic arity operations -- 3. The verb morphology of Modern Standard Arabic -- 4. The morpho-phonological manifestation of the Lex-Syn Parameter -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- II. SYNTAX -- ON THE INDIVIDUAL-PROPERTY CONTRAST IN FREE STATE POSSESSIVE NOMINALS IN EGYPTIAN ARABIC -- 1. Two types of possessives: Introducing the individual-property contrast -- 2. Adnominal possession strategies in EA -- 3. Syntactic asymmetries between IDPs and PDPs in FS possessives in EA -- 4. The IDP-PDP distinction at the syntax-semantics interface -- 5. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- RECONSTRUCTION AND ISLANDHOOD IN JORDANIAN ARABIC -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Resumption -- 3. Paradoxes -- 4. What really matters for reconstruction -- 5. Analysis -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- AN ARABIC WACKERNAGEL CLITIC?.

1. Introduction -- 2. Negation in Palestinian Arabic -- 3. Analytical approaches -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- III. PSYCHOLINGUISTICS -- THE SPLIT-INFL HYPOTHESIS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Discussion and conclusion -- APPENDIX A -- REFERENCES -- LEXICAL PROCESSING IN TWO LANGUAGE VARIETIES -- 1. Background -- 2. Methods -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- REFERENCES -- IV PRAGMATICS -- A COGNITIVE APPROACH TO ANALYZING DEMONSTRATIVES IN TUNISIAN ARABIC -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Givenness Hierarchy -- 3. Tunisian Arabic demonstratives -- 4. Analysis -- 5. Results and discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- A PROSODIC FEATURE THAT INVITES BACK-CHANNELS IN EGYPTIAN ARABIC -- 1. Back-channeling as a dialog skill -- 2. Prosody and turn-taking in Arabic -- 3. Corpus preparation -- 4. Analysis method -- 5. Cues for back-channels -- 6. Examples -- 7. Quantitative description of the downdash feature complex -- 8. Evaluation -- 9. Open questions -- REFERENCES -- V. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS -- IMPLEMENTING AN OPEN SOURCE ARABIC RESOURCE GRAMMAR IN GF -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Example -- 4. System overview -- 5. The grammar -- 6. Related work -- 7. Evaluation -- 8. Future work -- 9. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- A LINK GRAMMAR PARSER FOR ARABIC -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preprocessing -- 3. Link Grammar -- 4. Results -- 5. Ambiguity and scoring -- 6. Discussion and results -- 7. Applications and future work -- 8. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.