Multiple Functions of the Nunations in Arabic Syntax: A Minimalist Perspective.
The objective of this work is to investigate the phonological features of nunation appear at the end of an NP in Modern Standard Arabic and relate them to syntax and semantics in the light of Chomsky's (1995) views of Minimalist Program. Al-Jahaawi (1982, p. 10-11) has argued that the Arab phonetici...
| Publicado en: | Dirasat: Human & Social Sciences Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 687 - 708 |
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University of Jordan
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=109090355&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 109090355 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10263721 S44 jtl: Dirasat: Human & Social Sciences issn: 10263721 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Winter2009 vid: 36 iid: 3 pid: 19575 pub: University of Jordan artinfo: ui: 109090355 ppf: 687 ppct: 21 formats: tig: atl: Multiple Functions of the Nunations in Arabic Syntax: A Minimalist Perspective. aug: au: Jalabneh, Atef affil: Department of Linguistics, The Middle East University for Graduate Studies, Amman, Jordan su: Arabic language -- Syntax Phonemics Phonetics Syntax (Grammar) Semantics Arabic language education Chomsky, Noam, 1928- sug: subj: Arabic language -- Syntax Phonemics Phonetics Syntax (Grammar) Semantics Arabic language education Chomsky, Noam, 1928- keyword: Consonant Extended Projection Principle Features Logical Form Nunation Spell-Out Vowel X-Bar Syntax التنوين الصائت الصامت المستوى التجريدي المستوى المنطقي ايكس بار سينتاكس خصائص مبدأ اتساع الجمله ab: The objective of this work is to investigate the phonological features of nunation appear at the end of an NP in Modern Standard Arabic and relate them to syntax and semantics in the light of Chomsky's (1995) views of Minimalist Program. Al-Jahaawi (1982, p. 10-11) has argued that the Arab phoneticians defined nunation as "a short vowel plus the nasal consonant n. The vowel is determined either by (i) its nature or (ii) its relation with other segments in articulation". The researcher agrees with this definition but added that there are other forms having the structure [v + n + v] in addition to [v + n]. Due to the multiple forms projected, he posits phonological rules to govern their phonemic occurrences. He, further, has argued that each form carries intrinsic as well as optional features in syntax and they are posited at spell-out but survived up to the logical form as per X-bar- theory. In it, the NP with nunation is less in rank than the NP with the definite article al 'the' in the syntactic hierarchy as per the Extended Projection Principle. As far as the semantic features of nunation forms are concerned, a hypothesis is posited to account for the values of indefiniteness and non specificness in syntax and represent them concretely under [- Def. P]. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y dt: @attributes: year: 2009 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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