Multi-locus Analysis of Arabic Negation

Micro-variation in Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Ahmad Alqassas, Georgetown University) Alqassas, Ahmad (Assistant Professor

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-02-16
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt359 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
Antal sidor192
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474433150

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Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; List of tables; IntroductionChapter 1: Issues in the Syntax of Sentential NegationChapter 2: Locus of Negation in Syntactic StructureChapter 3: Semantic and Pragmatic Effects of Negative MarkersChapter 4: Licensing Negative Sensitive ItemsChapter 5: Distribution of the Negation StrategiesChapter 6: The Jespersen Cycle of NegationChapter 7: Summary and ConclusionsReferences

Alqassas builds on Zanuttini's work on negation in Romance languages. He offers rich analyses of negation in Arabic languages and the variation among those languages, therefore of great interest to specialists in Arabic. He also develops an approach that goes beyond "parameters" and his book will interest the growing number of syntacticians who recognize the limitations and problems in parametric approaches and have been working on how parsing requires new analyses that permit the required variation.