The Location of Sentential Negation in Arabic Varieties

Benmamoun, Elabbas; Abunasser, Mahmoud; Al-Sabbagh, Rania; Bidaoui, Abdelaadim; Shalash, Dana

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“…Although heritage speakers resorted to colloquial Arabic to realize sentential negation, their sentences were, for the most part, syntactically well formed according to the rules of either MSA or colloquial Arabic. Again, this is not surprising if one considers the notable structural similarities between MSA and colloquial Arabic (Benmamoun et al, ). However, previous studies on transfer from a typologically distinct language (e.g., English) suggested that transfer sometimes results in erroneous sentences that are acceptable in neither the target language nor the intruding language (Albirini & Benmamoun, ; Bos, ; Boumans, ; El Aissati, ).…”

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“…Maa is followed by the perfective form of the verb. Lam , which is the common form of past tense negation according to corpus studies (Benmamoun, Abunasser, Al‐Sabbagh, Bidaoui, & Shalash, ), is followed by the imperfective form of the verb. According to Benmamoun et al (), lam encodes both negation and tense (i.e., tense merges with negation, as in [4])…”

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“…The Egyptian and Palestinian dialects deploy similar negation strategies (Benmamoun et al, ; Soltan, ). Sentential negation in colloquial Arabic is typically realized by two negative particles: maa — š and miš .…”

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“…The discontinuous pattern ( maa — š ) is used obligatorily in verbless existential constructions as well as in past tense sentences and imperatives . In present tense sentences, both the discontinuous and the non‐discontinuous markers are possible, but the latter is less frequent and marked (Benmamoun et al, ). Overall, the colloquial varieties of Arabic use a system of sentential negation that is different from the one used in MSA, at least on the surface (Benmamoun et al, ).…”

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“… Laysa may be used in present tense sentences, but this use is not common and is often restricted to classical Arabic contexts, as has been shown in corpus studies (Benmamoun et al, ).…”

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The Role of the Colloquial Varieties in the Acquisition of the Standard Variety: The Case of Arabic Heritage Speakers

Albirini

2014

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The study investigated the acquisition of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) by second language (L2) learners and by heritage speakers of the colloquial varieties of Arabic. The study focused on three questions: (1) whether heritage speakers who enroll in college‐level elementary MSA classes have an advantage over their L2 counterparts, (2) whether any potential advantage that heritage speakers may bring into the classroom carries on to a later stage of their MSA learning, and (3) the role of positive or negative transfer from the colloquial variety in the acquisition of MSA in a formal setting. Thirty‐five heritage speakers (19 elementary and 16 advanced), 28 advanced L2 learners, and 16 native‐speaker controls completed five negation tasks. The results indicated that, whereas elementary heritage speakers entered the MSA classroom with an advantage over their L2 counterparts in the area under study, the advanced heritage speakers exhibited patterns that were comparable to those of the L2 learners. Unlike their L2 counterparts, however, the advanced heritage speakers displayed positive and negative transfer effects from colloquial Arabic. The findings are discussed in the framework of three models/hypotheses of first language transfer to a third language, and their pedagogical implications for Arabic language teaching and learning are explicated.

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“… Laysa may be used in present tense sentences, but this use is not common and is often restricted to classical Arabic contexts, as has been shown in corpus studies (Benmamoun et al, ).…”

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VSOWord Order, Primarily in Arabic Languages

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2017

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition

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Arabic varieties, such as Classical Arabic, allow the verb to precede the subject and object. As in other verb‐initial languages, a number of issues arise that concern the proper configuration for the VSO order, the surface position of the subject and the verb, how agreement between the verb and the subject obtains, how to account for the agreement asymmetries that arise in the SVO and VSO orders, how Case gets assigned/checked, and whether the verb and the object form a unit at some point in the syntactic derivation or in some position in the syntactic representation. Naturally these issues have been part of the debate about language universals and language variation, the nature and motivations behind movement operations such as verb movement, and the interplay between syntax and its interfaces, particularly the PF interface.

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The Location of Sentential Negation in Arabic Varieties

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The Role of the Colloquial Varieties in the Acquisition of the Standard Variety: The Case of Arabic Heritage Speakers

The Role of the Colloquial Varieties in the Acquisition of the Standard Variety: The Case of Arabic Heritage Speakers

VSOWord Order, Primarily in Arabic Languages

Arabic Diglossia and Heritage Arabic Speakers

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