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Prepositional Phrases in Modern Standard Arabic: An Agree-Based Analysis

Author(s) -

Ahmad Assiri

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

journal of language teaching and research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2053-0684

pISSN - 1798-4769

DOI - 10.17507/jltr.1206.04

Subject(s) - genitive case , complement (music) , arabic , linguistics , valuation (finance) , natural language processing , computer science , modern standard arabic , feature (linguistics) , grammar , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , noun , chemistry , biochemistry , finance , complementation , economics , gene , phenotype

Prepositions, in Arabic traditional grammar literature, have been analyzed as Genitive Case assigners (Hasan, 1976; Sibaweihi, n.d.). This paper presents a phase-based analysis for prepositions (Ps) in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The analysis is built on Chomsky's (2005, 2008) Feature-Inheritance model of Agree. In this proposed analysis, Prepositional Phrases (PPs) in MSA are analyzed as phases, where a Probe-Goal relation is established between the prepositional Probe p-P and the DP in its searching domain (i.e., its complement). The outcome of this relation is valuation of the unvalued Case feature on this DP complement (i.e., Genitive Case), and a similar valuation to the unvalued phi-features (φ-fs) on the Probe p-P.

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