28.1274, Diss: Aspects of the Clause Structure and Word Formation in Arabic

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Subject: 28.1274, Diss: Aspects of the Clause Structure and Word Formation in Arabic

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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:33:27
From: Ayoub Loutfi [ayoubloutfi1 at gmail.com]
Subject: Aspects of the Clause Structure and Word Formation in Arabic

 
Institution: Mohammed V University - Agdal 
Program: Language and Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2017 

Author: Ayoub Loutfi

Dissertation Title: Aspects of the Clause Structure and Word Formation in Arabic 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax


Dissertation Director(s):
El Abbas Benmamoun
Abdellatif Al Ghadi

Dissertation Abstract:

The present dissertation is a defense of the hypothesis that word formation is
syntactic.  Endorsing a non-lexicalist approach à la Distributed Morphology,
it seeks to explore the claim there is a symbiotic relationship between syntax
and morphology. Two lines of investigations are pursued. The first one
examines the role of syntactic functional heads in determining the
distribution of verbs and in introducing arguments into verbal argument
structures. The main contribution of this part is to provide further empirical
evidence for splitting the traditional VP into two separate functional heads.
The suggested argument-introducing functional heads are Voice and light v. The
effects of the split VP structure proposed are further adumbrated with data
from double object constructions, location verbs, causatives, anticausatives
and passives. 

The other formal line of investigation pursued attempts to provide a unifying
morphosyntactic treatment of negation in Standard Arabic (SA) and Moroccan
Arabic (MA). As far as MA is concerned, we provide an analysis of the
distribution of the discontinuous negative morpheme and the co-occurrence
restriction that holds between {-ʃ} and Negative Polarity Items. For the
former, it is shown that the distribution of negation supports the existence
of syntactic phenomenon at the word level, namely the existence of
phase-by-phase Spell-Out. For the latter, a general context-sensitive
constraint is developed to capture this generalization, which is shown to be
an instance of Syntactic Haplology. As for Negation in SA, we argue that the
Subject-Neg agreement triggered by laysa and the temporal interpretation
associated with lan and lam are explained on the basis of Chomsky’s (2005)
Feature Inheritance mechanism.




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