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- Title
Remarks on the Arabic complementizer 'inna.
- Authors
Alotaibi, Mansour
- Abstract
A Standard Arabic (SA) complementizer known as 'inna poses a restriction on word order in the clause it introduces and induces accusative Case-marking on the otherwise nominative preverbal NPs.1 Following Chomsky's (2001) account of the morphosyntax of Case, this paper argues that 'inna is a Case assigner and thus it carries an uninterpretable Case feature that determines the value which it assigns to an unvalued Case feature concerning accessible goal within A-bar projection. The paper shows that this argument captures the restriction imposed on 'inna-clauses.
- Subjects
ARABIC language; COMPLEMENTIZERS (Grammar); MORPHOSYNTAX; ACCUSATIVE case (Grammar); FUNCTION words (Grammar)
- Publication
Revista de Estudos da Linguagem, 2019, Vol 27, Issue 3, p1295
- ISSN
0104-0588
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17851/2237-2083.27.3.1295-1312