Arabic-L:LING:Wants Grammatical judgements

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Date: 17 Feb 2006
From:farwaneh at email.arizona.edu
Subject:Wants Grammatical judgements

dear Members,
An undergraduate student is considering conducting her Honors thesis

research on broken plural agreement in Egyptian Arabic, which  
according to
Mughazy, spells out as feminine singular. It seems to me that there are
certain constraints that may force the referential gender/number  
features
[+plural, -feminine] to supercede the morphological feature [-pl,  
+fem]. I
would appreciate your grammaticality judgment on these sentences with  
the
noun [riggaala] marked by both agreement features; do you find them all
acceptable?

a. irriggaala gum.
b. irriggaala gat.
"The men came"

c. irriggaala gid3aan.
d. irriggaala gada3a.
"The men are brave"

e. irriggaala humma lgid3aan.
f. irriggaala hiyya lgada3a.
"The men are the brave ones"

g. irriggaala dool mahummaash issabab.
h. irriggaala di mahiyyaash issabab.
"These men are not to blame (literally: not the reason)"

i. irriggaala illi 'ultilak 3aleehum xaragu.
j. irriggaala illi 'ultilak 3aleeha xaragit.
"The men I told you about left"

Thanks in advance for your input, and I will post a summary unless
responses are posted directly to the list.

Samira

Samira Farwaneh
Assistant Professor, Arabic Language and Linguistics
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Department of Linguistics
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program
Louise Foucar Marshall Building
845 N Park Avenue, Room 440
PO BOX 210158B
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona  85721-0158B
Phone: (520) 621-8629 Or 621-8012
Fax: (520) 621-2333

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