Gapping in Modern Standard Arabic: An Agree-Based Analysis
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Languages and Translation, King Khalid University
Issue: 27 | Pages: 477-513 | February 2021 | https://doi.org/10.54940/ll38299970| PDF
Received: 25/02/2020 | Accepted: 06/05/2020 | Online: 14/02/2021
Abstract
This paper investigates the phenomenon of Gapping in coordination structures in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). It proposes an analysis based on Chomsky's (2005, 2008) Feature-Inheritance model of Agree (FI, henceforth). The analysis diverges from other works on coordination such as Deletion (e.g., Hankamer,1979; Wilder, 1994), Low VP Coordination and VP-Ellipsis (e.g., Toosarvandani, 2013), and Low vP Coordination followed by an Across-the-Board (ATB) movement (Johnson, 2009); instead, it analyzes coordination in MSA as a binary relation where every coordinated conjunct is a full CP, and the conjunction is the head of a ConjP. The analysis uses semantic as well as syntactic explanation for Gapping in MSA, thus rendering the need for a distinct structure for coordination unnecessary.
Keywords
Agree, Arabic, Coordination, Gapping, Licensing.
How to Cite
Assiri, A. (Feb 2021), Gapping in Modern Standard Arabic: An Agree-Based Analysis, Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Language Sciences and Literature, Vol. 27, pp. 477–513. https://doi.org/10.54940/ll38299970
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