Counter-cyclic merge as a last resort for adjuncts

Haddad, Youssef A.

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“…Drawing on Uriagereka (2003) and Chomsky (2004), Haddad (2014Haddad ( , 2019 argues that ADs as applicatives start out as adjuncts in a separate plane or dimension as in (11).…”

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“…According to Haddad (2019), cyclic merge of adjuncts like ApplPs takes priority over countercyclic merge and must take place whenever possible in order to satisfy the Extension Condition as stated in Chomsky 1993. Countercyclic merge only happens as a last resort if the discourse feature of the AD targets an element in the left periphery; e.g., speaker or hearer.…”

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“…The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 provides an overview of attitude dative constructions in Levantine Arabic and presents a syntactic account of these structures based on Haddad (2014Haddad ( , 2019. The section also highlights a feature of subject-oriented attitude dative constructions that is relevant to the topic of imperatives.…”

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“…For example, the same AD may be interpreted as speaker or topic/affectee oriented depending on the context. Haddad (2019) points out that subject-oriented ADs do not show the same flexibility. If an AD refers to the subject, it may only be interpreted as a subject-oriented AD.…”

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“…* ʔakalne:-lna: l-baʔle:wa / ha-l-baʔle:wa we.ate-us.D the-baklava / this-the-baklava Intended meaning: 'We ate the baklava/this baklava (the event is insignificant).' Haddad (2019) explains why subject-oriented ADs have this special status. He analyzes ADs as high applicatives that merge above vP (Boneh and Nash, 2010;Jouitteau and Rezac, 2007;McGinnis, 2001;Roberge and Troberg, 2009).…”

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The syntax of the addressee in imperatives: What Levantine Arabic attitude datives bring to the table

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The imperative subject constitutes a special category compared to the subjects of other types of clauses in that it is required to be the addressee. Zanuttini (2008) argues that this requirement follows from a special syntactic status: imperative subjects enter the computation with gender and number but no person features. They acquire a second-person specification later by entering an agreement relation with the head of a jussive phrase, a functional projection that is unique for imperative clauses and that occupies the left periphery. This paper provides independent evidence from attitude dative constructions in Levantine Arabic in support of this approach. Attitude datives are optional pronominal elements that make pragmatic contributions to utterances without altering their meaning. The paper shows that attitude datives whose referent coincides with the referent of the subject are less restricted in terms of the interpretation they may receive in imperative versus other types of clauses. Imperative clauses are more permissive, a characteristic that follows from the special status of their subject.

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“…Drawing on Uriagereka (2003) and Chomsky (2004), Haddad (2014Haddad ( , 2019 argues that ADs as applicatives start out as adjuncts in a separate plane or dimension as in (11).…”

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The Morphosyntax of Arabic Exceptives: A Minimalist Approach

Al-Bataineh

2021

Journal of Semitic Studies

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Arabic exceptive constructions involve an intricate interaction among word order, negation, and case assignment resulting from syntactic restrictions imposed on the argumental, appositional, and adjunctive functions of exceptive phrases. The morphosyntactic complexities in Arabic exceptives cast doubt on the adequacy of previous analyses that exceptive particles are prepositions, focal adverbs, or coordinating conjunctions, and they also lead the paper to argue for more principled accounts in which exceptive particles are analysed as functional heads that project into an ExP ‘exceptive phrase’ which exists in two distinct configurations. The first includes an exceptive marker carrying [Acc- Case] ‘accusative case’ and [DS] ‘domain subtraction’ features when the ExP is an adjunct introduced by late Merge. The second includes a negative determiner which selects and c-commands the exceptive particle and deactivates/ suspends its [Acc-Case], consequently, the case feature of the ExP-complement is valued by percolation from D which combines with the exceptive marker to form a discontinuous focus particle with a [DR] ‘domain restriction’ feature.

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Split Lexical Insertion in Parasitic Gap Constructions*

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2022

Studia Linguistica

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We propose to extend the feature movement theory (Chomsky 1995; Ochi 1999; Lasnik 1999, 2001; Agbayani 1998, 2000, 2006; Agbayani & Ochi 2006) by claiming that the separation of formal features (FF) from the rest of a lexical item occurs not only in syntactic movement but also in the course of lexical insertion. Applying this hypothesis to Parasitic Gap constructions, we argue that the FF and the rest of the lexical item are merged into the Parasitic Gap site and the real gap site, respectively. The split lexical insertion model straightforwardly accounts for the major properties of these constructions without appealing to sideward movement (Nunes 2001, 2004) or to additional assumptions about the featural content of the split portions of the lexical item under fission (Assmann 2012/Himmelreich 2017). An interesting result of this proposal is that it places parasitic gap constructions under a general theory of movement and lexical insertion.

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Counter-cyclic merge as a last resort for adjuncts

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The syntax of the addressee in imperatives: What Levantine Arabic attitude datives bring to the table

The syntax of the addressee in imperatives: What Levantine Arabic attitude datives bring to the table

The Morphosyntax of Arabic Exceptives: A Minimalist Approach

Split Lexical Insertion in Parasitic Gap Constructions*

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