Focusing on the relation between functional categories and lexical and phrasal categories in Arabic dialects, Benmamoun proposes that universally functional categories are specified for categorial features which determine their relation with lexical categories. Language variation is attributed to differences with respect to the categorial feature specifications of functional categories and how they interact with lexical categories. The book brings new insights to issues related to the syntax of functional categories, the relation between syntax and the morpho-phonological component, and comparative syntax.
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Elabbas Benmamoun is at University of London.
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merger between the verb, lexical merger, tensed negatives, suffixal agreement, tensed variants, agreement asymmetry, null copula, vocalic melody, nonverbal predicates, verbal copula, agreement asymmetries, present tense interpretation, verbless sentences, verb subject agreement, sentential negation, sentential negatives, categorial features, motion predicate, tense projection, present tense sentences, positive imperatives, imperfective form, person prefix, lexical subject, rightmost member Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Moroccan Arabic, Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Fassi Fehri, Construct State, Checking the Categorial Feature of Negation New!
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merger between the verb, lexical merger, tensed negatives, suffixal agreement, tensed variants, agreement asymmetry, null copula, vocalic melody, nonverbal predicates, verbal copula, agreement asymmetries, present tense interpretation, verbless sentences, verb subject agreement, sentential negation, sentential negatives, categorial features, motion predicate, tense projection, present tense sentences, positive imperatives, imperfective form, person prefix, lexical subject, rightmost member Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Moroccan Arabic, Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Fassi Fehri, Construct State, Checking the Categorial Feature of Negation New!
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- The Syntax of the Celtic Languages: A Comparative Perspective by Robert D. Borsley in Back Matter
- Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabic: An Essay in Comparative Semitic Syntax (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Ur Shlonsky in Back Matter
- Grammar of the Arabic Language by A. Wright in Back Matter
- Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Eleventh Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Atlanta. 1997 (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory & ... IV: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) by Elabbas Benmamoun in Back Cover
- Syllables and Segments (North-Holland linguistic series ; 40) by Alan Bell in Back Matter
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- Parameters and Universals (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Richard S. Kayne in Front Matter
- Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages (Studies in Generative Grammar) by Katalin E. Kiss on page 94
- Comparative Syntax of the Balkan Languages (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Marï¿1/2a-Luisa Rivero in Front Matter
- The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Andrew Carnie in Front Matter
- Themes in Arabic and Hebrew Syntax (STUDIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY Volume 53) by J. Ouhalla on page 69
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