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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782306203321

Autore

Mohammad Mohammad A

Titolo

Word order, agreement, and pronominalization in standard and Palestinian Arabic / / Mohammad A. Mohammad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

1-282-16378-7

9786612163784

90-272-9965-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 189 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Word order, agreement, and pronominalization in standard and Palestinian Arabic

Disciplina

492.7/5

Soggetti

Arabic language - Word order - Palestine

Arabic language - Agreement

Arabic language - Pronoun

Arabic language - Syntax

Arabic language - Dialects - Syntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

WORD ORDER, AGREEMENT AND PRONOMINALIZATION IN STANDARD AND PALESTINIAN ARABIC; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of Contents; Abbreviation and Transcription Conventions; Preface; CHAPTER 1. Variation in Word Order; CHAPTER 2. The Categorial Status of VP in Arabic; CHAPTER 3. Word Order and the Expletive Pronoun; CHAPTER 4. The Expletive Hypothesis; CHAPTER 5. Asymmetries in Binding; Bibliography; Index; CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY

Sommario/riassunto

The two related issues of word order, and subject-verb agreement have occupied center stage in the study of Arabic syntax since the time of Sibawayhi in the eighth century. This book is a contribution to both of these areas. It is grounded within the generative grammar framework in one of its most recent versions, namely Minimalism, as expounded in Chomsky (1995). In this volume, a detailed description is given of word



order options in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Palestinian Arabic (PA). It is shown that, perhaps surprisingly, the two varieties allow almost the same range of word orders.