Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 182] 2012. xx, 358 pp.
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
List of John Benjamins publications for which Abdelkader Fassi Fehri plays a role.
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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2011 Arabic agree, silent pronouns, and reciprocals Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics, Broselow, Ellen and Hamid Ouali (eds.), pp. 75–126 | Article
Various grammatical phenomena have been analyzed so far as essentially formal, or interfacing with PF syntax. Verb subject agreement asymmetries, subject pronoun deficiency (or ‘Pro drop‘), and morpho-syntactic variation in reciprocal expressions in Arabic have been treated as such. The article… read more
2007 Bare, generic, mass, and referential Arabic DPs Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation, Karimi, Simin, Vida Samiian and Wendy K. Wilkins (eds.), pp. 40–65 | Article
This paper investigates the properties of generic, mass, quantificational, and definite reference, in relation to the overt/covert expression of determiners, and shows that Arabic bare nouns are typically indefinite, while generic and mass interpretations require the overt expression of articles. I… read more
2004 Nominal classes, reference, and functional parameters, with particular reference to Arabic Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2004, Pica, Pierre (ed.), pp. 41–108 | Article
DPs and BNs are used parametrically in Arabic (as well as in other languages) to express generic/existential contrasts, and mass/count oppositions. Unlike English and Romance, Arabic BNs behave like overt indefinites, give rise to bare singulars, and to numeral BNs, obviating scope or opacity… read more
2003 Verbal plurality, transitivity, and causativity Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000, Lecarme, Jacqueline (ed.), pp. 151–185 | Article
2003 Synthetic/analytic asymmetries in voice and temporal patterns Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 2: Morphology, phonology, acquisition, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 95–128 | Article
2000 Distributing Features and Affixes in Arabic Subject Verb Agreement Paradigms Research in Afroasiatic Grammar: Papers from the Third conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis, 1996, Lecarme, Jacqueline, Jean Lowenstamm and Ur Shlonsky (eds.), pp. 79–100 | Article
1998 Layers in the Distribution of Arabic Adverbs and Adjectives and Their Licensing Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Benmamoun, Elabbas, Mushira Eid and Niloofar Haeri (eds.), pp. 9 ff. | Article