Issues in the Structure of Arabic Clauses and Words

Fehri, Abdelkader Fassi

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“…weigh, have, resemble, fit, and marry on the related interpretation), also described that the adverb of manner contribute in sub-classification, a truth which was constructed into his formalization of the passive transformation. According to (Daimi 2001, Fehri 1993, Chalabi 2004) they list some major points related to Arabic language: Arabic is flexible, freelance language, Arabic words are built from the roots ,Arabic is written from right to left, Arabic is an additive and conservative language. Soltan (2009) analyze the distinctive features of imperatives verbs form in Standard Arabic and claimed that the languages that have pre-verbal negation which don't allow negative imperatives while languages with post-verbal negation always allow negative imperatives.…”

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Syntactic Analysis of Arabic Adverb′s between Arabic and English: X Bar Theory

Aqad¹

2013

IJLL

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Abstract:This study was undertaken to highlight some linguistic devices of structural and syntactic analysis of multi-position Arabic adverbs, the study offered a syntactic baseline between Arabic and English, the researcher selected six sentences of Arabic and English adverbs, 3 in Arabic and 3 in English, in order to serve the task of analysis and scrutinize some indiscernible adverbs loci of Arabic comparing with one key position in English. The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether the locus of adverbial sentence in Arabic is matchable to locus of English sentence or otherwise. The subject of this study was the flexible position of Arabic adverbs, which may approach in the initial, middle or even end of Arabic sentence. Towards that end, a comparative methodology of the Arabic and English adverbs have explicated some declarative and interrogative sentences from Arabic and its correspondence in English, via adopted chomeskyan syntactic theory (Chomsky, 1995, Minimalist Program) with paying heed to the syntactic similarities and dissimilarities of adverbs locus in both systems and delve for the flexible position in Arabic which could change the sentential meaning and the grammatical structure by adopting Chomsky X' theory (1995).

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Syntactic Analysis of Arabic Adverb′s between Arabic and English: X Bar Theory

Aqad¹

2013

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“…A number of studies have been conducted and several analyses have been proposed and argued for in the attempt to provide a unified treatment of the subject in question (Mohammed, 1991(Mohammed, , 2000Fassi-Fehri 1993;Aoun et al, 1994;Olarrea (1995) ;Soltan, 2007;and Fakih 2014band Fakih , 2015and Fakih , 2016, among others. This paper, however, seeks to study word order derivation and agreement in Najrani Arabic and explores how SVO and VSO word orders are derived in the syntax on the basis of Chomsky' (2001Chomsky' ( , 2005 Agree theory which constitutes the phase model and feature inheritance approach.…”

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The Syntax of Word Order Derivation and Agreement in Najrani Arabic: A Minimalist Analysis

Fakih¹,

Al-Sharif²

2017

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The paper aims to explore word order derivation and agreement in Najran Arabic (henceforth, NA) and examines the interaction between the NA data and Chomsky 's (2001, 2005) Agree theory which we adopt in this study. The objective is to investigate how word order occurs in NA and provide a satisfactorily unified account of the derivation of SVO and VSO orders and agreement in the language. Furthermore, the study shows how SVO and VSO word orders are derived morpho-syntactically in NA syntax and why and how the derivation of SVO word order comes after that of VSO order. We assume that the derivation of the unmarked SVO in NA takes place after applying a further step to the marked VSO. We propose that the default unmarked word order in NA is SVO, not VSO. Moreover, we propose that the DP which is base-generated in [Spec-vP] is a topic, not a subject. We adopt Rizzy's split-CP hypothesis on the basis of which we assume the existence of a Top Phrase (TopP) projection in the clause structure of NA. We postulate that the phase head C passes its ϕ-features to the functional head T and the Edge feature to TopP. We assume that T in VSO lacks the Edge feature which motivates movement of the subject DP to [Spec-TP]. As a consequence, the subject of VSO structure remains in situ in the subject position of [Spec-vP]. In addition, it explores subject-verb agreement asymmetry (henceforth, SVAA) and shows that the asymmetry in NA is not related to word order differences but rather to gender agreement differences.

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“…It is argued that Standard Arabic is a morphologically rich language where the verb encodes information of more than one paradigm at the same time (Fassi Fehri, 1993). This morphological richness explains the fact that the verb in this language needs to move into higher heads like Tense, Agreement, Aspect, Mood, etc (Fassi Fehri, 1993;Ouhalla, 1994).…”

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“…This has led modern Arab linguists to assume that the unmarked word order in Standard Arabic is VSO and the alternative order SVO is derived via subject movement; hence verb movement in Standard Arabic is not optional since the verb has to move in both word orders (Fassi Fehri, 1993;Ouhalla, 1994;Shlonsky, 1997;Benmamoun, 2000 et al). Therefore, the optionality is actually in subject movement, i.e., whether the subject stays in-situ in spec-vP or moves to spec-TP.…”

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AbstractRecent analyses of word order in Standard Arabic and the regional varieties of Arabic have assumed that the postverbal subject in the VSO word order in these languages is actually in-situ in its base position in spec-vP (Fassi Fehri, 1993;Ouhalla, 1994;Shlonsky, 1997;Benmamoun, 2000 et al). In this paper, I provide an alternative analysis in which the postverbal subject in the VSO word order is assumed to have vacated its base-position in spec-vP and moved to the left of the vP projection.

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The Syntactic Cartography of the TP Layer in Minimalism

Saeed¹

2015

IJEL

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Recent analyses of word order in Standard Arabic and the regional varieties of Arabic have assumed that the postverbal subject in the VSO word order in these languages is actually in-situ in its base position in spec-vP (Fassi Fehri, 1993;Ouhalla, 1994;Shlonsky, 1997;Benmamoun, 2000 et al.). In this paper, I provide an alternative analysis in which the postverbal subject in the VSO word order is assumed to have vacated its base-position in spec-vP and moved to the left of the vP projection. I take this new position of the postverbal subject to be the specifier position of the functional head Subj that heads a projection between vP and TP (Kayne, 2000;Belletti, 2004;Ordonez, 2005). Arguments that support this assumption come from the comparison of Standard Arabic and Sana'ani Arabic, through examining the distribution of postverbal subjects with respect to quantifiers, adverbs, pronominal clitics and restructuring contexts. This paper introduces new evidence to the effect that a detailed cartography of the postverbal area in these languages can provide a relatively minimal account for parametric differences in postverbal subject position(s) in other related languages.

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Issues in the Structure of Arabic Clauses and Words

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Syntactic Analysis of Arabic Adverb′s between Arabic and English: X Bar Theory

Syntactic Analysis of Arabic Adverb′s between Arabic and English: X Bar Theory

The Syntax of Word Order Derivation and Agreement in Najrani Arabic: A Minimalist Analysis

The Syntactic Cartography of the TP Layer in Minimalism

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