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- Title
The Syntax of Wh-Interrogatives in Hijazi Arabic: A Non-Transformational Approach.
- Authors
Alaowffi, Nouf Y.; Althawab, Abdulrahman A.
- Abstract
Unbounded dependencies are structures where two elements that typically co-occur appear far from one another in spite of the syntactic dependency between them. Wh-interrogatives are one of the mostly investigated types of unbounded dependencies cross-linguistically. To contribute to the ongoing linguistic research in wh-interrogatives, the current paper attempts to explore them in one of the Arabic varieties: Hijazi Arabic (HA). The paper primarily focuses on how to account for the constructions of HA wh-interrogatives using one of the prominent non-transformational theories in generative syntax: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). The analysis proposed herein also sheds light on the word order used in HA. The paper concludes that there are two constraints to which wh-interrogatives in HA are subject.
- Subjects
WORD order (Grammar); SYNTAX (Grammar); GRAMMAR; TERMS &; phrases
- Publication
Theory & Practice in Language Studies (TPLS), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 10, p2525
- ISSN
1799-2591
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17507/tpls.1310.11