Definiteness of adjectives in Arabic DPs

• 영문명: Definiteness of adjectives in Arabic DPs
• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Dhari AlOtaibi Shamlan AlQenaie 박순혁(Soonhyuck Park)
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제40권 제3호, 431~462쪽, 전체 32쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.12.31

영문 초록

The internal structure of the DP has long been a topic of debate in the study of Modern Standard Arabic. This is due not only to the comprehensive agreement in φ-features, Case, and definiteness between the adjective and its head noun, but also to the difference in meaning depending on the relative placement of the adjective in relation to the noun within the DP. Previous studies have proposed two distinct basic structures for Arabic DPs, employing the notions of Agree or Feature Checking. However, these operations do not necessarily trigger the displacement of syntactic objects in the derivation, nor do they adequately capture the correlation of semantic patterns with their relevant syntactic derivations. This paper argues instead that both patterns of the Arabic DP can be derived from a unified syntactic structure and treats the agreement in definiteness differently from that of φ-features and Case. The presence or absence of agreement in definiteness, considering two possible positions of the adjective and their interpretations of the DP, are accounted for in terms of the parametric variations of the feature on the head D within the framework of the Minimalist Program.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Agreement in definiteness

3. Previous approaches

4. A unified s tructure

5. Analyses

6. Conclusion

References

키워드

DPs Modern Standard Arabic agreement definiteness feature inheritance Minimalist Program