PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS II AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE General Editor E.F. KONRAD KOERNER (University of Ottawa) Series IV - CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY Advisory Editorial Board Henning Andersen (Los Angeles); Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles) Thomas V. Gamkrelidze (Tbilisi); Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin) J. Peter Maher (Chicago); Ernst Pulgram (Ann Arbor, Mich.) Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Danny Steinberg (Hanna Saitama) Volume 72 Mushira Eid and John McCarthy (eds) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics II PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS II PAPERS FROM THE SECOND ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS Edited by MUSHIRA EID University of Utah Salt Lake City and JOHN MCCARTHY University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mass. JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 1990 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (2nd : 1988 : University of Utah) Perspectives on Arabic linguistics II : papers from the Second Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics / edited by Mushira Eid and John McCarthy. p. cm. - (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763; v. 72) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Arabic language-Grammar-Congresses. 2. Arabic language- Semantics-Congres­ ses. I. Eid, Mushira. II. McCarthy, John J., 1953- . III. Title. IV. Series. PJ6106.S9884 1988 492\7--dc20 90-752 ISBN 90 272 3570 8 (Eur.) /1-55619-128-6 (US) (alk. paper) CIP © Copyright 1990 - John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Editorial Note ix Introduction xi Mushira Eid & John McCarthy I. MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHONOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Prosodic Morphology and Templatic Morphology 1 John McCarthy & Alan Prince Doubled Verbs in Modern Standard Arabic 55 John Moore Arabic Broken Plurals: Arguments for a two-fold classification of morphology 94 Robert R. Ratcliffe Well-Formed Associations in Arabic: Rule or condition? 120 Samira Farwaneh Levantine Cyclogenesis 143 C. Douglas Johnson Epenthesis, Gemination, and Syllable Structure 167 Mahasen H. Abu-Mansour CONTENTS II. SEMANTIC PERSPECTIVES Aspectual Classification of Verbs in Cairene Arabic 192 John Eisele Connectives as Cohesive Elements in a Modem Expository Arabic Text 234 Mahmoud Al-Batal III. SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES Orthographic Variation in Modem Standard Arabic: The case of the hamza 269 Dilworth Parkinson 'Foreigner Talk': Evidence for the universality of language simplification 296 Adel L Tweissi Index of Subjects 327 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The preparation of the final copy of the volume was done at the Middle East Center of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. We would like to acknowledge the support the Center has provided throughout the editorial process—support in terms of computer equipment and software, copying, and secretarial time. In particular, we would like to acknowledge the editorial assistance o fTessa Hauglid of the Middle East Center staff—her patience, efficiency, and interest in the volume. EDITORIAL NOTE The papers in this volume were presented at the Second Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, which was held at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, March 4-5, 1988. During the symposium the Arabic Linguistic Society was formally established, and these annual symposia have now become a function of the Society. The papers presented at the symposium were selected on the basis of an anonymous review of abstracts submitted to the Program Committee. The papers submitted were further reviewed and edited before their final acceptance for publication. The transcription of all Arabic materials in the body of the papers follows the International Phonetic Alphabet, or standard equivalents. The Arabic emphatics are represented by a dot underneath the symbol, and long vowels as sequences of two vowels. For the citation of Arabic book titles in the reference sections, however, a transliteration system based on standard usage in Arabic and Middle East Studies journals has been adopted with some simplifications in the use of diacritics. Vowel length, for example, is not marked. The symbol ' represents the hamza and ' represents the 'ayn. We assume that if the reader knows Arabic, s/he will be able to supply information represented by the diacritics.