17.661, Qs: Case Assigning Complementizers; Priscian Quote

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Subject: 17.661, Qs: Case Assigning Complementizers; Priscian Quote

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1)
Date: 02-Mar-2006
From: Driss Marjane < drissmarjane at yahoo.com >
Subject: Case Assigning Complementizers 

2)
Date: 01-Mar-2006
From: Edward McDonald < laomaa20023 at yahoo.com.cn >
Subject: Priscian Quote 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:54:31
From: Driss Marjane < drissmarjane at yahoo.com >
Subject: Case Assigning Complementizers 
 


Dear All,

I am writing a dissertation on the CP system in Arabic and  I would be
grateful if anyone could answer the following question if only very briefly.

As you may already know, in Arabic there is a particle ''inna/anna'' which
is commonly analyzed as a complementizer in the generative literature and
which always assigns accusative Case to a right-adjacent nominal whether in
root clauses or in embedded ones.

I don't know if similar (Case-assigning) complementizers exist in other
languages and I would greatly appreciate your comments.

Sincerely,
Driss Marjane
Mohamed ben Abdellah University, Fez
Department of English
Morocco. 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:54:34
From: Edward McDonald < laomaa20023 at yahoo.com.cn >
Subject: Priscian Quote 

	

Dear List Members:

Some years ago I copied down the following (translated) quote from
Priscian's Institutiones Grammaticae as follows:

"just as letters combining appropriately form syllables, and syllables
words, so too do words form a sentence" 

I was convinced I'd copied it from Robin's History of Linguistics, but I
can't find it anywhere there.

Can anybody help me with a source?

thanks

Ed McDonald 

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
 



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