Comprising ten papers from this symposium, this volume deals with the syntax of Arabic, phonology and variation. The topics presented include: binding in Arabic; the analysis of negation and negative polarity items; pronoun doubling in codeswitching; and linguistic variation and language change.

1. Foreword; 2. Introduction; 3. I. Syntactic Perspectives; 4. Things are not what they seem: Pronoun doubling in bilingual and monolingual grammars (by Eid, Mushira); 5. Extending the NegP hypothesis: Evidence from standard Arabic (by Bahloul, Maher); 6. Negative polarity and presupposition in Arabic (by Benmamoun, Elabbas); 7. Negation in French and Tunesian Arabic (by Mallek Bahloul, Raja); 8. Binding in Arabic and the lexical clause (by Plunkett, Bernadette); 9. The interaction of causativity and reflexivity in derived Arabic verbs (by LeTourneau, Mark S.); 10. II. Perspectives on variation; 11. Arabic speakers' resetting of parameters (by Bolotin, Naomi); 12. Diglossia, linguistic variation, and language change in Arabic (by Walters, Keith); 13. III. Phonological perspectives; 14. Voice as aprivate feature: Asssimilation in Arabic (by Abu-Mansour, Mahasen Hasan); 15. Phonemic Pharyngealization (by McOmber, Michael L.); 16. Index of Subjects