2019
DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.27.3.1295-1312
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Remarks on the Arabic complementizer 'inna / Observações sobre o complementizador 'inna em árabe

Abstract: A Standard Arabic (SA) complementizer known as 'inna poses a restriction on word order in the clause it introduces and induces accusative Case-marking on the otherwise nominative preverbal NPs. Following Chomsky’s (2001) account of the morphosyntax of Case, this paper argues that 'inna is a Case assigner and thus it carries an uninterpretable Case feature that determines the value which it assigns to an unvalued Case feature concerning accessible goal within A-bar projection. The paper shows that this argument… Show more

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“…The pronominal clitic related to the CLLDed element is a direct object clitic. An additional backing for this stance is the observation that in SA, the DP following the complementizer 'Ɂinna'-whether directly after it as in (12a) or with an intervening element like a prepositional phrase (PP) as in (12b)-necessitates an accusative case (Alotaibi, 2019;Alotaibi & Borsley, 2013;Aoun, 1981;Berjaoui, 2009). This is illustrated in the following example in (12) The ungrammaticality of (10a) does not arise due to the that-trace effect, but rather from the premise that the DP after the complementizer functions as a topic and can occasionally be followed by an object.…”
Section: That-trace Violationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The pronominal clitic related to the CLLDed element is a direct object clitic. An additional backing for this stance is the observation that in SA, the DP following the complementizer 'Ɂinna'-whether directly after it as in (12a) or with an intervening element like a prepositional phrase (PP) as in (12b)-necessitates an accusative case (Alotaibi, 2019;Alotaibi & Borsley, 2013;Aoun, 1981;Berjaoui, 2009). This is illustrated in the following example in (12) The ungrammaticality of (10a) does not arise due to the that-trace effect, but rather from the premise that the DP after the complementizer functions as a topic and can occasionally be followed by an object.…”
Section: That-trace Violationmentioning
confidence: 99%