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- Title
A FEATURE-BASED ANALYSIS OF THE SYNTAX OF THE CLAUSE-INITIAL PARTICLE ʁedɪ IN NORTH HAIL ARABIC.
- Authors
ALSHAMARI, MURDHY R.
- Abstract
This paper provides a minimalist account of the syntax of the discourse particle ʁedɪ in North Hail Arabic, a variety spoken in Saudi Arabia. It adopts standard minimalist approaches, Chomsky's (2000, 2001) Agree, Rizzi's (1997) Split CP hypothesis and Richards's (2001) Tuck-in to address the syntactic behaviour of this particle. It is argued that, endowed with an interpretable/unvalued [TOP] feature and uninterpretable/unvalued φ- features in the sense of Pesetsky and Torrego (2007) and Bošković (2011), ʁedɪ is merged in the left periphery, spelling out the head feature of the Familiar Topic Phrase in the sense of Frascarelli and Hinterhölzl (2007), whence it probes the constituent with the matching features in situ. Hence, the argument that discourse particles link syntax to discourse and contribute to the interpretation of the associated sentence (Biberauer et al. 2014). The desirable outcome is that movement is only forced in cases of multi familiar topics. This provides a plausible explanation that movement is conceptually conceived of as a functional relation established between the probe and the goal as a record for the semantic/information-structure interpretation at the interface system. Facts drawn from cliticization, phases, and multiple familiar topics are taken as convergent evidence bearing out these assumptions.
- Subjects
SYNTAX (Grammar); ARABIC language; DISCOURSE markers; TERMS &; phrases; SENTENCES (Grammar); SEMANTICS
- Publication
Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2017, Vol 53, Issue 3, p305
- ISSN
1732-0747
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/psicl-2017-0012