Subject-Verb Agreement in Standard Arabic: A Minimalist Approach  

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Al-Shorafat, Mohammed O.

Jenis: Article from Journal
Dalam koleksi: SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics vol. 9 no. 1 (Jan. 2012), page 33-49.
Topik: Subject-Verb Agreement; Standard Arabic; Probe; Goal; Phase
Fulltext: Mohammed O.AL-Shorafat.pdf (94.65KB)

Isi artikel

The main concern of this paper is to investigate the phenomenon of subject-verb agreement in Standard Arabic (SA) within Chomsky's (1998, 1999, 2001) recent minimalist approach. In his approach, Chomsky claims that subject-verb agreement involves a relationship between a probe (P) and a local goal (G).He also maintains that syntactic operations proceed by phase. If this approach could provide a principled account of Subject-Verb agreement in SA, then this will lend empirical support for the universality of Chomsky's minimalist hypotheses. If not, then those hypotheses have to be modified in order to account for cross-linguistic language phenomena

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