The papers in this volume are taken from the Tenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics held in 1996. Topics covered include: definiteness realization in standard Arabic; properties of nominalization Dps in classical Arabic; and underspecification of lexical entries for Arabic verbs.

1. Foreword; 2. Introduction; 3. I. Discourse and Syntactic Perspectives; 4. Remarks on Focus in Standard Arabic (by Ouhalla, Jamal); 5. Definiteness Realization and Function in Palestinian Arabic (by Belyayeva, Dina); 6. Case Properties of Nominalization DPs in Classical Arabic (by Stepanov, Arthur); 7. II. Morphological Perspectives; 8. Underspecification of Lexical Entries for Arabic Verbs (by LeTourneau, Mark S.); 9. Plural Formation in Arabic (by Idrissi, Ali); 10. Prosodic Templates in a Word-Based Morphological Analysis of Arabic (by Ratcliffe, Robert R.); 11. The Suppletive Imperative of Arabic "Come" (by Testen, David); 12. III. Phonetic and Phonological Perspectives; 13. On an Optimality-Theoretic Account of Epenthesis and Syncope in Arabic Dialects (by Zawaydeh, Bushra Adnan); 14. Acoustics of Pharyngealization vs. Uvularization Harmony (by Shahin, Kimary N.); 15. Phonological Variation in Syrian Arabic: Correlation with Gender, Age, and Education (by Daher, Jamil); 16. IV. Perspectives on the Acquisition of Arabic; 17. Arabic Speakers and Parasitic Gaps (by Bolotin, Naomi); 18. Stress Prosody and Speech Segmentation: Evidence from Moroccan Arabic (by Mourchid, Younes); 19. Index of Subjects