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A Unified Theory of Polarity Sensitivity - Comparative Syntax of Arabic (Hardcover): Ahmad Alqassas A Unified Theory of Polarity Sensitivity - Comparative Syntax of Arabic (Hardcover)
Ahmad Alqassas
R3,247 Discovery Miles 32 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Polarity sensitivity is a ubiquitous phenomenon involving expressions such as anybody, nobody, ever, never, somebody and their counterparts in other languages. These expressions belong to different classes such as negative and positive polarity, negative concord, and negative indefinites. In this book, Ahmad Alqassas proposes a unified approach to the study of this phenomenon that relies on examining the interaction between the various types of polarity sensitivity, with a particular focus on Arabic. Alqassas shows that treating this interaction is fundamental for scrutinizing their licensing conditions. Alqassas draws on data from Standard Arabic and the major regional dialects represented by Jordanian, Egyptian, Moroccan, and Qatari. Through the (micro)comparative approach, Alqassas explains the distributional contrasts with a minimal set of universal syntactic operations such as Merge, Move, and Agree. He also considers a fine-grained inventory of negative formal features for polarity items and their licensors. These simple features paint a complex landscape of polarity and lead to important conclusions about syntactic computation. By engaging with the rich but under-studied landscape of Arabic polarity sensitivity, this book provides a new perspective on the syntax-semantic interface and develops a unified syntactic analysis for polarity sensitivity. These contributions have important implications for the study of Arabic and for syntactic theory more generally.

A Multi-Locus Analysis of Arabic Negation - Micro-Variation in Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic (Paperback): Ahmad... A Multi-Locus Analysis of Arabic Negation - Micro-Variation in Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic (Paperback)
Ahmad Alqassas
R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book studies the micro-variation in the syntax of negation of Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic. By including new and recently published data that support key issues for the syntax of negation, the book challenges the standard parametric view that negation has a fixed parametrized position in syntactic structure. It particularly argues for a multi-locus analysis with syntactic, semantic, morphosyntactic and diachronic implications for the various structural positions. Thus accounting for numerous word order restrictions, semantic ambiguities and pragmatic interpretations without complicating narrow syntax with special operations, configurations or constraints.

A Multi-Locus Analysis of Arabic Negation - Micro-Variation in Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic (Hardcover): Ahmad... A Multi-Locus Analysis of Arabic Negation - Micro-Variation in Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic (Hardcover)
Ahmad Alqassas
R3,415 Discovery Miles 34 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Standard Arabic data from a corpus study of negation in the Quran (around 86 thousand words) and Levantine literature (around 86 thousand words). Dialectal data from a Southern Levantine dialect (Jordanian Houran) and a Gulf Arabic dialect (Qatari) shedding light on word order contrasts in negative clauses. New data challenging the standard claim in the Arabic linguistics literature that negation has a fixed position in the clause structure. New data challenging the binary parametric view of cross-linguistic negation studies and supporting a multi-locus analysisThis book studies the micro-variation in the syntax of negation of Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic. By including new and recently published data that support key issues for the syntax of negation, the book challenges the standard parametric view that negation has a fixed parametrized position in syntactic structure. It particularly argues for a multi-locus analysis with syntactic, semantic, morphosyntactic and diachronic implicat

A Unified Theory of Polarity Sensitivity - Comparative Syntax of Arabic (Paperback): Ahmad Alqassas A Unified Theory of Polarity Sensitivity - Comparative Syntax of Arabic (Paperback)
Ahmad Alqassas
R1,461 Discovery Miles 14 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Polarity sensitivity is a ubiquitous phenomenon involving expressions such as anybody, nobody, ever, never, somebody and their counterparts in other languages. These expressions belong to different classes such as negative and positive polarity, negative concord, and negative indefinites. In this book, Ahmad Alqassas proposes a unified approach to the study of this phenomenon that relies on examining the interaction between the various types of polarity sensitivity, with a particular focus on Arabic. Alqassas shows that treating this interaction is fundamental for scrutinizing their licensing conditions. Alqassas draws on data from Standard Arabic and the major regional dialects represented by Jordanian, Egyptian, Moroccan, and Qatari. Through the (micro)comparative approach, Alqassas explains the distributional contrasts with a minimal set of universal syntactic operations such as Merge, Move, and Agree. He also considers a fine-grained inventory of negative formal features for polarity items and their licensors. These simple features paint a complex landscape of polarity and lead to important conclusions about syntactic computation. By engaging with the rich but under-studied landscape of Arabic polarity sensitivity, this book provides a new perspective on the syntax-semantic interface and develops a unified syntactic analysis for polarity sensitivity. These contributions have important implications for the study of Arabic and for syntactic theory more generally.

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