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Against Multiple Agreement Evidence from Standard Arabic
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Alazzawie, Abdulkhaliq |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Description | Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal This paper provides evidence, based on the Case properties of verbless copular clauses in Standard Arabic (SA), against the Multiple Agreement Hypothesis proposed for languages such as Japanese (Hiraiwa, 2001), English (Chomsky, 2005b; Radford, 2006), and SA double-accusative structures (Al-Horais, 2013). It argues that the mismatch in Case value between the two nominal constituents – the DP “subject” and the DP or AP predicate - of verbless copular clauses is incompatible with the claim that a single probe can simultaneously agree with more than one goal. Rather, the Case phenomenon within the copular contexts considered appears to be consistent with, and follows from, an Agree relation between a single active probe and a single active matching goal. Some SA copular clauses which include a modal-like negative element - laysa - will also be used to address the key issue under investigation. |
| Related Links | https://awej.org/images/AllIssues/Volume8/Volume8number4december/1abs.pdf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=3094518 |
| ISSN | 10914358 |
| e-ISSN | 15565068 |
| DOI | 10.2139/ssrn.3094518 |
| Journal | SSRN Electronic Journal |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
| Publisher Date | 2017-12-29 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health |
