A Multi-locus Analysis of Arabic Negation : : Micro-variation in Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic / / Ahmad Alqassas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Alqassas, Ahmad,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Theoretical Linguistics : ESTL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

A micro-syntactic analysis of negation in three varieties of ArabicThis book studies the micro-variation in the syntax of negation of Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic. By including new and recently published data that support key issues for the syntax of negation, the book challenges the standard parametric view that negation has a fixed parametrized position in syntactic structure. It particularly argues for a multi-locus analysis with syntactic, semantic, morphosyntactic and diachronic implications for the various structural positions. Thus accounting for numerous word order restrictions, semantic ambiguities and pragmatic interpretations without complicating narrow syntax with special operations, configurations or constraints.IncludesData from Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic shed light on word order contrasts in negative clauses and their interaction with tense/aspect, mood/modality, semantic scope over adverbs, and negative sensitive itemsNew data challenges the standard claim in Arabic linguistics literature that negation has a fixed parametrized position in the clause structureNon-parametric analysis challenges the parametric view of cross-linguistic negation studies and supporting a multi-locus analysis

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Issues in the syntax of sentential negation -- 2 Locus of negation in syntactic structure -- 3 Semantic and pragmatic effects of negative markers -- 4 Licensing Negative Sensitive Items -- 5 Distribution of the negation strategies -- 6 The Jespersen Cycle of negation -- 7 Summary and conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index