In this paper, we bring to the attention of the linguistic community recent research on
heritage languages. Shifting linguistic attention from the model of a monolingual speaker to …

Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics outlines and evaluates the major approaches and methods
used in Arabic sociolinguistic research with respect to diglossia, codeswitching, language …

Covering all aspects of the history of Arabic, the Arabic linguistic tradition, Arabic dialects,
sociolinguistics and Arabic as a world language, this introductory guide is perfect for …

This is the first cross-linguistic study of imperatives, and commands of other kinds, across the
world's languages. It makes a significant and original contribution to the understanding of …

Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and
language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist …

The research of the last four decades suggests strongly that abstract laws of significant
generality underlie much of the superficial complexity of human language. Evidence in favor …

In Case, Mark Baker develops a unified theory of how the morphological case marking of
noun phrases is determined by syntactic structure. Designed to work well for languages of …

We argue for a uniformly upward-probing implementation of Agree (Upward Agree, UA),
showing that it can account for a wide range of long-distance agreement phenomena …

This article investigates the Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC): a head-initial category
cannot be the immediate structural complement of a head-final category within the same …

I propose a phrasal-movement analysis of word order in Hebrew and Arabic noun phrases. I
argue that the positioning of nominal modifiers with respect to the head of simple nouns …