Journal Articles

Benmamoun, Elabbas, and Abdulkafi Albirini. "Is Learning a Standard Variety Similar to Learning a New Language? Evidence from Heritage Arabic Speakers." Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016, p. 1-31.

Benmamoun, Elabbas, Abdulkafi Albirini, Silvina Montrul, and Eman Saadah. "Arabic Plurals and Root and Pattern Morphology in Egyptian and Palestinian Heritage Speakers." Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, vol. 4, no. 1, 2014, p. 89-123.

Benmamoun, Elabbas, Silvina Montrul, and Maria Polinsky. "Defining an “Ideal” Heritage Speaker: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges." Theoretical Linguistics, vol. 39, no. 39, 2013, p. 259-294.

Albirini, Abdulkafi, Brahim Chakrani, and Elabbas Benmamoun. "Gender and Number Agreement in the Oral Production of Arabic." Language and Cognition, vol. 16, no. 1, 2013, p. 1-18.

Benmamoun, Elabbas, Silvina Montrul, and Maria Polinsky. "Heritage Languages and Their Speakers: Opportunities and Challenges for Linguistics." Theoretical Linguistics, vol. 39, no. 39, 2013, p. 129-181.

Benmamoun, Elabbas. "Agreement and Cliticization in Arabic Varieties from Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives." Al-`Arabiyya, vol. 44-45, 2012, p. 137-150.

Albirini, Abdulkafi, and Elabbas Benmamoun. "Aspects of second language transfer in the oral production of Egyptian and Palestinian heritage speakers." International Journal of Bilingualism, vol. 18, 2014, p. 244-273.

Albirini, Abdulkafi, Elabbas Benmamoun, and Eman Saadah. "Grammatical features of Egyptian and Palestinian Arabic Heritage Speakers’ Oral Production." Studies in Second Language Acquisition, vol. 33, 2011, p. 273-303..

Benmamoun, Elabbas, Archna Bhatia, and Maria Polinsky. "Closest Conjunct Agreement in Head-Final Languages." Linguistic Variation Yearbook, vol. 9, 2010, p. 67-88.

Benmamoun, Elabbas. "The Syntax of Arabic Tense." Linguistique Arabe, 2007, p. 9-25.

Benmamoun, Elabbas, and Heidi Lorimor. "Featureless Expressions: When Morpho-phonological Markers are absent." Linguistic Inquiry, vol. 37, no. 1, 2006, p. 1-23.

Benmamoun, Elabbas. "Licensing Options: The Puzzle of Head NPIs." Linguistic Inquiry, 2006, p. 141-149.

Benmamoun, Elabbas, and Rajesh Kumar. "The Overt Licensing of NPIs in Hindi." The Yearbook of South Asian, 2006, p. 31-48.

Benmamoun, Elabbas. "Agreement parallelism between sentences and noun phrases." Lingua, vol. 113, 2003, p. 747-764.

Albirini, Abdulkafi, and Elabbas Benmamoun. "Factors affecting the retention of sentential negation in heritage Egyptian Arabic." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2015, p. 470-489.

Albirini, Abdulkafi, and Elabbas Benmamoun. "Concatenative and Non-Concatenative Plural Formation in L1, L2, and Heritage Speakers." Modern Language Journal, vol. 98, no. 3, 2014, p. 854-871.

Benmamoun, Elabbas, Mahmoud Abunasser, Rania Alsabbagh, Abdelaadim Bidaoui, and Dana Shalash. "The Location of Sentential Negation in Arabic Varieties." Brill’s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 2014, p. 83-116.

Benmamoun, Elabbas, Silvina Montrul, and Maria Polinsky. "Defining an “Ideal” Heritage Speaker: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges. Reply to Peer Commentaries." Theoretical Linguistics, vol. 39, 2014, p. 259-294.

Book Contributions

Abunasser, Mahmoud, and Elabbas Benmamoun. "Quantifying lexical and Pronunciation variation between three Arabic varieties." Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII, edited by Stuart Davis, edited by Usama Soltan. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016, p. 187-212.

Benmamoun, Elabbas. "Verbal and Nominal Plurals and the Syntax Morphology Interface." Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII, edited by Stuart Davis, edited by Usama Soltan. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016, p. 59-74.

Akkuş, Faruk, and Elabbas Benmamoun. "Clause Structure in Contact Contexts:" Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII, edited by Youssef Haddad, edited by Eric Postdam. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016, p. 153-172.

Benmamoun, Elabbas, Mahmoud Abunasser, Rania Al-Sabbagh, Abdelaadim Bidaoui, and Dana Shalash. "Variations On the Same Theme: Sentential Negation and the Negative Copula in Arabic." Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV-XXV, edited by Samira Farwaneh, edited by Hamid Ouali. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014, p. 121-138.

Benmamoun, Elabbas, and Lina Choueiri. "The Syntax of Arabic from a Generative Perspective." Handbook of Arabic Linguistics, edited by Jonathan Owens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, p. 115-164.

Hasegawa-Johnson, Hasegawa-Johnson, Elabbas , Benmamoun, Eiman Mustafawi, and Mohamed Elmahdy. On The Definition of the Word `Segmental'." Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 2012.

Benmamoun, Elabbas. "Clause Structure and Tense of Verbless Sentences." Foundational Issues In Linguistics Theory, edited by Maria-Luisa Zubizaretta, edited by Robert Freidin, edited by Carlos Otero. MIT Press, 2008, p. 105-131.

Benmamoun, Elabbas. "The Role of the Imperfective Template in Arabic Morphology." Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-based, Morphology, edited by Joseph Shimron. John Benjamins, 2003, p. 99-114.

Benmamoun, Elabbas. "Reciprocals as Plurals." Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II, edited by Jacqueline Lecarme. John Benjamins, 2003, p. 53-62.

Benmamoun, Elabbas, and Khaled Al Asbahi. "Negation and the Subject Position in Sana`ani Arabic." Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI, edited by Karen Froud, edited by Reem Khamis-Dakwar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014, p. 75-90.

Books

Aoun, Joseph, Elabbas Benmamoun, and Lina Choueiri. Arabic Syntax. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Benmamoun, Elabbas. The Feature Structure of Functional Categories. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Encyclopedia Entries

Benmamoun, Elabbas. "Arabic Syntax." Encyclopedia of Arabic Linguistics IV, Brill Academic Publishers, 2009.

Benmamoun, Elabbas. "The Construct State." Encyclopedia of Arabic Linguistics. Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.

Edited Books

Benmamoun, Elabbas. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIX. John Benjamins, 2007.

Al-Hawary, Mohammad, and Elabbas Benmamoun. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XVII-XVIII. John Benjamins, 2005.

Parkinson, Dilworth, and Elabbas Benmamoun. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIII-XIV. John Benjamins, 2002.

Lappin, Shalom, and Elabbas Benmamoun. Fragments: Studies In Ellipsis and Gapping. Oxford University Press, 1999.

Benmamoun, Elabbas. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XII. John Benjamins, 1999.

Benmamoun, Elabbas, and Mushira Eid. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics Vol. XI. John Benjamins, 1998.