Probes and pronouns: variation in agreement and clitic doubling in Arabic

Probes and pronouns: variation in agreement and clitic doubling in Arabic

This study develops a new approach to agreement variation in Standard Arabic (SA) and Rural Jordanian Arabic (RJA) based on the Probe-Goal framework of Chomsky (2000, 2001). The key patterns investigated are the variation in fullness of agreement in the SV and VS word orders, the relationship betwee...

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Main Author: Sahawneh, Meera
Other Authors: Oxford, Will (Linguistics)
Published: 2017
Subjects:
Probes
Pronouns
Subject-verb agreement
Clitic doubling
Arabic
Syntactic analysis
Agreement asymmetry
First conjunct agreement
Resolved agreement
Standard Arabic
Rural Jordanian Arabic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32163

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http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32163

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