Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar

Name: Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar
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Abdelkader Fassi Fehri(Author)

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Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Table of contents
Foreword
Provenance of Chapters
Part I Temporality, aspect, voice, and event structure
Tense/Aspect interaction and variation
1. Past, Perfect, Perfective
1.1 The Past/Perfect ambiguity
1.2 Temporal and modal qad
1.3 One or two projections of T
1.4 Perfective
2. Present, Imperfect, Imperfective
3. Imperfect and SOT
4. Perfectivity
4.1 ST as Perfective
4.2 PT as Imperfective?
4.3 From Tense to Aspect
4.4 The Tense/Aspect language typology revisited
5. Conclusion
Transitivity, causativity, and verbal plurality
1. Issues
1.1 Problem 1: Semitic morpho-syntax
1.2 Problem 2: Transitivity theory
2. Number Theory
2.1 Ingredients of Num T
2.2 Verbal plurality and distributed Num
2.3 Distributed plurality
2.4 Causative complexity, verbalization, and distributivity
2.5 Two sources of transitivity
2.6 Parallel plural morphology
2.7 Summary
3. Cross-linguistic evidence
3.1 Causatives, transitives, and event quantification
3.1.1 Causativization and transitivization
3.1.2 Multiple behaviour
3.1.3 Event quantification
3.2 Moravcsik's resistant cases
4. Conceptual motivations and competing analyses
4.1 Little v: Verbalizer or transitivizer?
4.2 Aspect
4.3 Voice
4.3.1 Anti-transitive reflexives
4.3.2 Reflexive causatives
4.3.3 Agentive and expositive causatives
4.3.4 Requestive causatives
4.3.5 Ergative Num and intensive forms
4.4 Further empirical motivations
4.4.1 Ergative and unergative Num in event plurality and transitivity
4.4.2 Adicity, (in)transitive alternations, and multiple uses
5. Num theory and Num heights
5.1 Sg and Pl Merge
5.2 Language variation
6. Summary and conclusion
Synthetic/analytic asymmetries in voice and temporal patterns
1. Analysis, voice, and temporality
1.1 The problem
1.2 Nominal auxiliaries
1.3 S/O Agr split and auxiliary selection
1.4 Temp auxiliaries
1.5 Voice
1.5.1 Arabic and anaphoric Agr
1.5.2 Latin and split Agr
1.5.3 Modern Greek
1.5.4 Albanian
1.5.5 Moroccan Arabic
2. Formal complexity and categorization
2.1 Further analytic and synthetic questions
2.1.1 Pass and additional complexity
2.1.2 Two finite Agrs
2.1.3 Ancient Greek as fully synthetic
2.2 Reanalysis as the source of analytic pass or perfect
2.3 A splitting analysis (of Temp and Agr categories)
3. Peculiarities and structural heights
3.1 Imperfective passive
3.2 Verbal and adjectival voices
3.3 Multiple functions across heights
4. Summary and conclusion
Arabic Perfect and temporal adverbs
1. Salient properties of the Arabic TR system
1.1 Polyfunctionality of T/Asp forms
1.2 The PresPerf split: Synthesis and analysis
1.3 The Past split: Simple Past Pfv and complex Past Impfv
2. The Perfect/Past ambiguity
2.1 Aspects and Tenses
2.2 Positional "deictic" adverbs
2.3 Perf and modal qad
2.4 Adverbs and simple vs. complex tenses
2.5 Durational adverbs
3. Temporal adverbs and kinds of Perfect
3.1 Positional mundu
3.1.1 Imperfective tenses
3.1.2 Perfective tenses
3.1.3 PresPerf tense
3.2 Durational mundu
3.3 Perf of Res and Post-state
4. Summary and conclusion
4.1 T/Asp morphology
4.2 T/Asp adverbs or particles
4.3 Conclusion
Part II DP, np, bareness, and count/mass structures
The grammar of count and mass
1. Toward a wider count grammar
1.1 Ways of 'numeralizing'
1.1.1 Partitive numeral
1.1.2 Predicative numeral
1.1.3 Numeral verbs
1.1.4 Numeral adverbs
1.2 Ways of count quantifying
1.2.1 Count quantifier bid? in a construct state
1.2.2 Predicative count quantifier
1.2.3 The count/measure ambiguity of kam
1.2.4 More partitives
1.3 Events selecting count nouns
2. General nouns
2.1 General atomicity
2.2 Singulative atomicity
2.3 General nouns and general Number
2.4 Counting and numeralizing
2.5 The general noun is not plural
2.6 The general noun is not mass
2.7 The general noun is not a group
3. Collective varieties
3.1 What 'counts' in the grammar of collectives
3.2 Syntactic groups
4. Masses
4.1 Mass as atomless
4.2 Mass is cumulative, and non-divisive
4.3 Mass as distinct from plural
4.4 Plural of mass is productive
5. Count/mass architecture, features, and functional categories
5.1 Count and mass syntax
5.2 Interpreting plural and singular inflections
6. Summary and conclusion
Synthesis in Arabic DPs
1. Setting the stage for synthesis
1.1 Synthetic ingredients
1.2 Synthetic 'articles'
1.3 Quantifiers
1.4 Numerals
1.5 Demonstratives
1.6 Indefinites in Arabic dialects
2. DP architecture
2.1 Adjective modification
2.1.1 The NA Order
2.1.2 MIO
2.1.3 Adjectival classes and non-intersectives
2.1.4 DA extensions
2.2 Mirror image alternations
2.3 Synthetic indefinites
3. Core properties and types of synthetic possession
3.1 How real is Definiteness spreading?
3.2 Possessor placement
3.3 Two classes of synthetic possessives
4. Characterizing the variation
Bare, generic, mass, and referential DPs
1. Overt D contrasts and genericity
1.1 Definite, generic, and mass
1.2 Predicates and anaphors
1.2.1 Kind Level Predicates
1.2.2 Stage Level Predicates
1.2.3 Individual Level Predicates
1.2.4 Kind anaphora
1.3 Plural as 'plural of the singular'
1.3.1 Scope
1.3.2 Opacity
1.3.3 Telicity
2. Arabic BNs are indefinites
2.1 Arabic BNs as indefinites?
2.2 GenP and N-to-Gen
2.3 Arabic/Romance distinctions and the Numeral Parameter
2.3.1 Varieties of bareness
2.3.2 The Numeral Parameter
3. Further discussion
3.1 Gen contexts
3.2 Modification and D-binding
3.3 Modalized contexts
3.4 Definite and indefinite generics
4. BNs and PNs
5. Mass specification
6. Conclusion
Determination parameters in the Arabic and Semitic diglossia
1. Indefinites
1.1 N moves over indefinite quantifier
1.2 N movement to indefinite D
1.3 Adjective movement and movement over adjectives
1.4 Semitic overt indetermination
2. Definites
3. Double (in)determination in Semitic
3.1 Definites and indefinites are not complementary
3.2 Searching for minimal (in)definite pairs
3.3 PNs are not indefinite
4. Bare determination
4.1 Individuating and non-individuating vocatives
4.2 Unique' superlatives
5. Account and summary
5.1 The computational history of determination
5.2 Two features in computation
Part III Clausal structure, silent pronouns, and Agree
Arabic silent pronouns, person, and voice
1. The referential/non-referential correlation
2. Impersonals/indefinites
2.1 Arabic
2.2 Comparison with French, Finnish, Irish, and Italian
2.3 The human feature
3. Referential pro
3.1 A topic approach
3.2 A Probe-Goal implementation
4. Passive', 'impersonal', 'indefinite'
5. Expletives and EPP
5.1 Arabic expletives
5.2 Pronouns and EPP
5.3 Finnish
6. Some consequences
6.1 Variation around Person
6.2 Topicality and Person
6.3 A new approach to Voice
Plural verbs and Agree
1. Introduction
2. Nominal Number
2.1 Where is number?
2.2 Non-human plurality
2.3 Lexical collectives
2.4 Syntactic collectives
2.5 Plurals of plurals and similar matters
3. Verb plurality
3.1 Pluractional morphology
3.2 Collective and distributive plural
3.3 Semantic Pl in SVO
3.4 Kinds of plural agreement: Collective and non-collective
4. Reciprocity
4.1 Lexical reciprocals and symmetric events
4.2 Morphological reciprocals
4.3 Syntactic reciprocals
5. Summary and conclusion
Time/space anchors, logophors, finiteness, and (un)interpretability of inflection
1. CP anchoring, double access tenses, and logophors
1.1 Person double access
1.2 Time double access
1.3 Arabic as a DAR language
1.4 Double access and Mood
1.5 Root and logophoric Cs
2. Finiteness
2.1 Subject properties
2.1.1 Cases of subjects
2.1.2 Positions of subjects
2.1.3 Subject agreement
2.1.4 Expletive subjects
2.2 Truncated structures
2.2.1 Raising
2.2.2 Auxiliary (complex tense) structures
2.2.3 ECM
2.2.4 Control
3. The structure of Tense
3.1 Tense on T and Person
3.2 Synthetic and analytic temporality
3.3 V movement
4. Summary and conclusion
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