Gulf Arabic

Holes, Clive

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“…JA is thus not different from most other Arabic vernaculars, where the SVO word order is the unmarked word order; the SVO word order is produced in discourse‐neutral contexts (cf. Holes )…”

Section: Complementizer Agreement and Jordanian Arabicmentioning

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Complementizer Agreement and the T⁰‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic

Jarrah

2019

Studia Linguistica

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Contra Chomsky (2007, 2008), this paper argues that there is no Φ‐dependency between C0 and T0 in Jordanian Arabic (JA) grammar. C0 and T0 are independently endowed with uΦ‐content, something that turns them into active probes, which are shown to not necessarily agree with the same goal. This provides evidence for a proposal where T0 and C0 have distinct uΦ‐features (Haegeman & van Koppen 2012). The study also shows that C0 in JA, unlike T0, may agree with a goal whose structural Case is already valued. We account for this variation following Oxford's (2017) microparametric proposal where the Activity Condition is a property of a particular functional head, rather than a property of the language as a whole. With respect to T0's Φ‐endowment, this study proposes that such endowment is a consequence of setting a positive value of the postulated T0‐Φ Parameter, which distinguishes languages where T0 is endowed with Φ‐features from those where it is not. This accounts for the observation that T0 is always inflected for Φ‐agreement in JA, even in situations where C0 is not projected.

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Section: Complementizer Agreement and Jordanian Arabicmentioning

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Complementizer Agreement and the T⁰‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic

Jarrah

2019

Studia Linguistica

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“…According to [28], there is no morphological set of forms in Arabic.Thisabsence of a corresponding present perfect form in the LI, according to [38], isundoubtedly significant in the difficulties encountered by learners in masteringthis form.Nevertheless, Kharma and Hajjaj [30] consider that Arabic language system embeds the present perfect tense conceptually, but it is not similar to the English present perfect. They state that "the categorical grammatical meanings expressed by the continuous and perfect forms in English cannot be easily associated with clear cut expanded forms in Arabic".…”

Section: J Present Perfect In English and Arabicmentioning

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“…-wasal/-‫مَ‬ ‫وصَ‬ /-"he arrived" and "he has arrived" [41] Accordingly, reference [3] presents "Functional Equivalence between Tense and Aspect in English and Arabic". The examples in Table I, It is to be noted that according to [28], the Arabic article "qad" or "laqad" denotes modality or tense and aspect when placed before the perfect, and it has "time-related" functions. [23] adds that "qad" or "laqad" can be combined with "kāna" and the perfect form refers to an action/event.…”

Section: J Present Perfect In English and Arabicmentioning

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The Effect of Interlanguage and Arabic Verb System on Producing Present Perfect by EFL Learners

Tahseldar¹,

Kanso²,

Sabra³

2018

International Journal of New Technology and Research

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The acquisition of foreign language goes through many processes. One of these processes, which attempts to frame the impact of native language on foreign language, is Interlanguage. This study investigated the effect of Interlanguage and Arabic Verb System on producing Present Perfect by EFL learners. The participants of the study were Lebanese University undergraduates who had been studying EFL for 14 years. The erroneous, absence or unconventional usage of the present perfect motivated the researcher to inspect the reasons behind this production. The instrument of the study is four topics, addressing the present perfect temporal notion,was presented to the learners who chose two of them, and wrote a paragraph on each. The studied samples, which consisted of 100 paragraphs, belonged to 50 participants. Following quantitative and descriptive approach, the samples were collected, corrected, and data were analyzed using tables to demonstrate the percentages of proper usage of the present perfect and the verb forms that replaced it mistakenly. The results revealed that interlanguage is the reason behind the learners' wrong production of the present perfect form, as they produced their own systematic linguistic system, which mixed between their native Arabic language verb system and their English tenses in replacing erroneously the present perfect.

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“…The relevant features do not always come together and the descriptive practice differs greatly from one author to another. For instance, according to Holes (1990) in Gulf Arabic non‐finites differ from finites in the absence of both tense and subject marking. On the other hand, Cole (1982:33) and Sridhar (1990:243) suggest that agreement alone defines finiteness in Imbabura Quechua and Kannada, respectively.…”

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“…Nikolaeva (2007c) presents abundant typological evidence that imperatives and hortatives tend to have reduced inflection and co‐occurrence with overt subjects, even though they are limited to main/independent clause and should perhaps be analysed as non‐finite. Some grammars, for instance, Holes (1990:204) for Gulf Arabic, explicitly subsume imperatives under non‐finites (together with participles and action nominals). In many syntactic analyses imperatives lack a functional head responsible for finiteness (e.g.…”

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Typology of Finiteness

Nikolaeva

2010

Language and Linguist. Compass

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The notion of finiteness inherited from the traditional grammar and based on morphological criteria has been ill defined. While some typologists doubt the universality of the finite/nonfinite distinction, others suggest that finiteness is a scalar meta‐phenomenon or a functional tendency defined by a cluster of correlating parameters. In this approach no decision is needed as to what feature is crucial for finiteness because it has different morphosyntactic manifestations across languages. The nature of finiteness has to do with the semantics of subordination (the asymmetry between dependent and independent clauses). But other research argues that the finite/nonfinite opposition is broader because it applies to independent clauses, too. The paper shows that there are different domains of grammar where the notion of finiteness may play a role. The nature of the relationship between them is to some extent arbitrary and depends on an individual language. This implies that if the universal content of this category is to be maintained, it must be decomposed. At this stage what we need is a typologically informed approach which can provide a tool for cross‐linguistic comparison and present the whole area of finiteness‐related phenomena in a structured and principled way. This is a necessary prerequisite for providing a descriptively adequate framework for further theory construction.

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Complementizer Agreement and the T⁰‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic

Complementizer Agreement and the T⁰‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic

The Effect of Interlanguage and Arabic Verb System on Producing Present Perfect by EFL Learners

Typology of Finiteness

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Complementizer Agreement and the T0‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic

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Typology of Finiteness

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