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.

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