The Feature Structure of Functional Categories

Name: The Feature Structure of Functional Categories | A Comparative Study of Arabic Dialects
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A Comparative Study of Arabic Dialects

Elabbas Benmamoun(Autor*in)

Oxford University Press

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Erschienen im Dezember 2000

193 Seiten

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Intro
Contents
1. Comparative Arabic Syntax
1.1 Main Empirical Generalizations
1.1.1 The Syntax of Tense in Arabic
1.1.2 The Syntax of Sentential Negation in Arabic
1.1.3 Agreement Asymmetries
1.2 Theoretical Assumptions and Implications
1.2.1 The Syntax of Functional Categories
1.2.2 Theoretical Implications
Part I: The Feature Structure of Tense
2. The Tense Systems of Egyptian Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, and Standard Arabic
2.1 Verb Morphology in Standard Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, and Egyptian Arabic
2.2 The Typology of Tense in Arabic
2.3 The Syntactic Status of the Imperfective
2.4 The Present Tense
2.5 The Future Tense
2.6 Imperatives
2.7 Conclusion
3. The Categorial Features of Tense
3.1 Typology of the Categorial Features of Tense
3.2 The Feature Structure of the Arabic Tense System
3.3 A Theory of the Categorial Features of Tense
3.4 Conclusion
4. Checking the Categorial Features of Tense
4.1 Verb Movement and Negation
4.2 Independent Negatives
4.3 Idiomatic Expressions and Word Order Asymmetries
4.4 The Morphological Distribution of the Person Prefix
4.5 Word Order Alternations
4.6 Position of the Subject in Verbless Negative Sentences
4.7 Conclusion
Part II: The Feature Structure of Negation
5. Sentential Negation in the Modern Arabic Dialects
5.1 Representation of Sentential Negation
5.2 The Feature Structure of Negation
5.3 Merger between Negation and Non-Verbal Predicates: Syntax or PF?
5.4 Conclusion
6. Negation in Standard Arabic
6.1 laa, lam, and Ian
6.2 Complementary Distribution, Feature Checking and Morphological Blocking
6.3 The Negative laysa
6.4 maa
6.5 Conclusion
7. Negation and Imperatives
7.1 The Syntactic Distribution of the Imperative
7.2 Positive Imperatives vs. Negative Imperatives
7.3 Previous Accounts of the Difference between Negative Imperatives and Positive Imperatives
7.4 Analysis of the Difference between Positive and Negative Imperatives
7.5 Conclusion
Part III: Agreement Asymmetries
8. Subject Verb Agreement Asymmetries
8.1 Agreement Paradigms
8.2 Previous Accounts
8.3 Distribution of Number Agreement
8.4 Analysis of the Distribution of Number Agreement
8.5 Agreement in Moroccan Arabic
8.6 Agreement and Interpretation
8.7 Agreement Between Demonstratives and Nouns
8.8 Conclusion
9. Agreement Asymmetries in DPs
9.1 The Construct State
9.2 Merger of the Members of the Construct State
9.3 Members of the Construct State Merge Post-Syntactically
9.4 Merger vs. Percolation
9.5 Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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