Word Order, Agreement and Pronominalization in Standard and Palestinian Arabic

Mohammad, Mohammad Ali

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“…While the verb always raises to T in both VSO and SVO orders (Benmamoun 2000;Mohammad 2000;Fakih 2006, among others), the subject remains in-situ in VSO and raises to SPEC TP in SVO (Chomsky 1995). Figures 1 and 2 present illustrative examples of both derivations, also presented as (6) and (7), respectively.…”

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Wh-Movement in Standard Arabic: An Optimality-Theoretic Account

Btoosh

2010

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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This paper is meant to delineate the syntax of wh-movement in Standard Arabic within the Optimality Theory framework. The scope of this study is limited to examine only simple, relativized and indirect verbal information questions. Further restrictions also have been placed on tense and negation in that only past tense affirmative questions are tackled here.Results show that Standard Arabic strictly adheres to the OP SPEC constraint in the matrix as well as the subordinate clauses. Findings also show that *Prep-Strand violation is intolerable in all types of information questions. Furthermore, the phonological manifestation of the complementizer is obligatory when the relative clause head is present or when the relative clause head is deleted and a resumptive pronoun is left behind.

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Wh-Movement in Standard Arabic: An Optimality-Theoretic Account

Btoosh

2010

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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“…On the other hand, partial agreement in VSO word order is viewed to be the outcome of the same relation but between the verb on T and a null expletive on its Spec. Mohammad's (1990Mohammad's ( , 2000 analysis can be demonstrated in (4) below where he assumes that the null expletive should be third person singular in order to account for the partial agreement phenomenon in Standard Arabic (Other analyses in this regard are also seen in Soltan, 2007 andAl-Horais, 2009). …”

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“…In order to account for this asymmetry, which refers to the difference in the agreement pattern according to a difference in the word order in SA, a number of proposals have been proposed and argued for among which are the null expletive analysis (Mohammad, 1990(Mohammad, , 2000Ouhalla, 1994;Olarrea, 1996;Soltan, 2007;and Al-Horais, 2009, among others), agreement loss analysis (Aoun et al 1994), and a base-generation analysis (Soltan, 2006(Soltan, , 2007. The objective was to provide a unified account on the subject under discussion.…”

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

Fakih¹,

Al-Sharif²

2017

ELT

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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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“…In the literature, during the Government and Binding Theory (GB) and the Minimalist Program (MP) eras, several analyses have been proposed to explain the agreement issue in MSA.There are grammarians who analyze the preverbal subject as a subject among those, Mohammad (1990Mohammad ( , 2000, Aoun, Benmamoun and Sportiche (1994), Bolotin (1995) and Benmamoun (2000) among others; others like Ouhalla (1991, 1994, 1997), FassiFehri (1988 and Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou (1998)among others, take the preverbal subject as a topic or a focus.…”

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Subject Verb Agreement in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Saudi Dialect of Arabic (SA): A New Minimalist Account

AlShammiry¹

2016

JFLCC

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Using Chomsky's theory of syntax, the Minimalist Program (MP) (1993, 1995, 2000), this paper presents a new analysis for the ongoing debatable word order variation in both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the Saudi dialect of Arabic (SA). It has been noticed that in SVO order, the subject agrees partially with the verb; whereas in VSO order, the subject fully agrees with the verb. In SA, the subject always fully agrees with the verb in both word orders. Previous studies have debated whether the preverbal subject is a subject or a topic or a focus. I argue that the noun in the MSA and SA is a subject which is either base generated in the case of the MSA or moved from inside the clause in the case of SA; making use of the distinction between al-jumlaalismiyya " the nominal sentence" and al-jumlaal-fi?liyya "the verbal sentence" in Arabic, Abd Al-bidee (1996) and among others, I ague that there is a Head Phrase (HP) at the left periphery of the clause where the subject surfaces to check the nominal head feature of the HP and to mark the clause nominal. For this argument, I assume that the clitic onto the verb is either an agreement marker or a subject and the number feature is weak in MSA and strong in SA. In addition, before the syntax, the noun is split into an expletive and a noun or a clitic and the TP in SA has two specs. The two supporting pieces of evidence for my argument are the subject of the embedded clauses and the structure of the wh-questions in MSA. The contribution of the paper lies in the fact that it investigates the agreement issue in a dialect that is, to my knowledge, heretofore uninvestigated; and adds to our understanding of the syntax of the agreement asymmetry in MSA and SA.

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Word Order, Agreement and Pronominalization in Standard and Palestinian Arabic

Cited by 163 publications

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Wh-Movement in Standard Arabic: An Optimality-Theoretic Account

Wh-Movement in Standard Arabic: An Optimality-Theoretic Account

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

Subject Verb Agreement in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Saudi Dialect of Arabic (SA): A New Minimalist Account

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