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Author Benmamoun, Elabbas

Title The feature structure of functional categories : a comparative study of Arabic dialects / Elabbas Benmamoun
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 180 pages)
Series Oxford studies in comparative syntax
Oxford studies in comparative syntax
Contents 1. Comparative Arabic Syntax; 1.1 Main Empirical Generalizations; 1.2 Theoretical Assumptions and Implications; Part I: The Feature Structure of Tense; 2. The Tense Systems of Egyptian Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, and Standard Arabic; 3. The Categorial Features of Tense; 4. Checking the Categorial Features of Tense; Part II: The Feature Structure of Negation; 5. Sentential Negation in the Modern Arabic Dialects; 6. Negation in Standard Arabic; 7. Negation and Imperatives; Part III: Agreement Asymmetries; 8. Subject Verb Agreement Asymmetries; 9. Agreement Asymmetries in DPs; Notes
Summary Focusing on the relation between functional categories and lexical and phrasal categories in Arabic dialects, Benmamoun proposes that universally functional categories are specified for categorial features which determine their relation with lexical categories
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Arabic language -- Dialects -- Syntax
Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
Arabic language -- Dialects -- Syntax
Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98052404
ISBN 9780195353143
0195353145
1280759852
9781280759857