By Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
In mild of modern generative minimalism, and comparative parametric concept of language version, the publication investigates key gains and parameters of Arabic grammar. half I addresses morpho-syntactic and semantic interfaces in temporality, aspectuality, and actionality, together with the Past/Perfect/Perfective ambiguity equivalent to the very artificial temporal morphology, collocating time adverb construal, and interpretability of verbal quantity as pluractional. half II is devoted to nominal structure, the behaviour of naked nouns as real indefinites, the count/mass dichotomy (re-examined in mild of basic, collective, and singulative DP properties), the reflect photo ordering of serialized adjectives, and N-to-D movement in artificial ownership, right names, and individuated vocatives. half III examines the function of CP in time and house anchoring, double entry interpreting (in a DAR language resembling Arabic), series of demanding (SOT), silent pronominal different types in constant null topic languages (including referential and customary pro), and the interpretability of inflection. Semantic and formal parameters are set out, inside a combined macro/micro-parametric version of language edition. The e-book is of specific curiosity to scholars, researchers, and academics of Arabic, Semitic, comparative, typological, or common linguistics.
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In these examples, the subordinate clause acts as a temporal adverbial forcing the shifting of the Imperfect in the matrix clause to a past interpretation (through a "hidden" past auxiliary, just like what happens in embedded dependent contexts). Such sorts of examples have been used thoroughly by the "aspectualists" to show that PT can express all tenses, from which they conclude that it is devoid ofTense. 16. Compare their examples (17) and (2l),p. 349. 15 16 Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar But these distributions can be taken as evidence to the contrary, namely that PT is an Imperfect Tense (denoting simultaneity, possibly with Past).
The ambiguity of FII and its transitivizing property in Standard Arabic come then as no surprise. 10 The question to be addressed now is why FIV cannot be intensive. In order to answer this question, we need first to examine more closely some details of the verbal morphology of plurality. 6 Parallel plural morphology Up till now, I have established a parallel between nominal and verbal quantification for the distributive/collective distinction. It would be a welcome step to reinforce this parallelism by examining other features/properties of plurality.
The former tenses cannot be extended (unless the interpretation is different, as indicated). g. the contrasts in their (22) and (23). 18. Simple ST being perfective, it cannot be equated with German Imperfect or even English Past (as claimed by Wright (II I, 1). Comrie (1976) correctly analyzes Wright's example which appears to be non-terninative (= (i) here) as Past perfective: 29. PL on the-door-GEN They sat down at/on the door. The natural interpretation of (i) is that the event cannot be further extended here (with the proviso made above with respect to (30a) ).