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Rethinking templates: A syntactic analysis of verbal morphology in Emirati Arabic

Author(s) -

Meera Al Kaabi,

Dimitrios Ntelitheos

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

glossa a journal of general linguistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2397-1835

DOI - 10.5334/gjgl.428

Subject(s) - linguistics , variety (cybernetics) , argument (complex analysis) , verb , arabic , semantics (computer science) , head (geology) , root (linguistics) , lexical semantics , syntactic structure , meaning (existential) , computer science , psychology , syntax , natural language processing , lexical item , artificial intelligence , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , geomorphology , psychotherapist , programming language , geology

This paper presents an analysis of the morphosyntax and lexical semantics of the system of verbal forms of Emirati Arabic (EA, the variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates) in terms of syntactic decomposition of argument structure. We argue that verbal meaning is a function of at least two syntactic functional heads: Voice and little v; and a lexical head: the consonantal root. We will further show that the unified syntactic structure, resulting from the interaction of the semantics and argument structure of the root with little v and Voice, captures the regularities as well as the exceptions in the interpretation of the verb forms of EA.

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