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| Title: | On Formal Feature Licensing in Minimalism: Aspects of Standard Arabic Morphosyntax |
| Authors: | Soltan, Usama |
| Advisors: | Uriagereka, Juan |
| Department/Program: | Linguistics |
| Type: | Dissertation |
| Sponsors: | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) |
| Keywords: | 0290
Language, Linguistics
0452
Social Work
Agreement; case-assignment; Standard Arabic; minimalist syntax; formal feature licensing; Agree |
| Issue Date: | 28-Aug-2007 |
| Abstract: | This dissertation investigates a set of phenomena in Standard Arabic at the syntax-morphology interface, providing an analysis for each within the assumptions of the minimalist program, particularly those related to mechanisms of formal feature licensing. Among the issues discussed are the subject-verb agreement asymmetry, case-assignment, default agreement, nominative Themes, as well as interactions between tense, negation, and modality heads. In this regard, I provide an analysis for word order alternation in the language in terms of left dislocation rather than via movement, showing that the language does not show A-movement effects in SVO orders, passives, raising constructions, or object shift. The same is also shown to hold in what is usually referred to as raising-to-object constructions. The proposed analysis shows that formal features such as case and agreement can be licensed in absence of movement, a conclusion more compatible with the Agree-based approach to formal feature ... |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7581 |
| Appears in Collections: | Linguistics Theses and Dissertations
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