Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Transliteration Conventions; Introduction; PART I: THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; 1. Negation in Moroccan Arabic: Scope and Focus; 2. On the Syntax and Semantics of Arabic Universal Quantification; 3. Statistical and Symbolic Paradigms in Arabic Computational Linguistics; 4. Raising in Standard Arabic: Backward, Forward, and None; 5. Construct State Nominals as Semantic Predicates; 6. On Licensing Wh-Scope: Wh-Questions in Egyptian Arabic Revisited
Summary
Arabic, one of the official languages of the United Nations, is spoken by more than half a billion people around the world and is of increasing importance in today's political and economic spheres. The study of the Arabic language has a long and rich history: earliest grammatical accounts date from the 8th century and include full syntactic, morphological, and phonological analyses of the vernaculars and of Classical Arabic. In recent years the academic study of Arabic has become increasingly sophisticated and broad. This state-of-the-art volume presents the most recent research in Arabic ling
