Argument-Structure-Reducing Operations in Standard Arabic: An Exploratory Comparative Study
This paper attempts to examine some argument-structure-reducing operations in Standard Arabic (SA for short). It is proposed here that some affixes (viz. prefixes and infixes) can decrease the argument structure (or valence) of the subclass of change-of-state (COS for short) verbs in the language un...
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ftideasspreadojs:oai:ojs3.j.ideasspread.org:article/5 2023-05-15T16:31:10+02:00 Argument-Structure-Reducing Operations in Standard Arabic: An Exploratory Comparative Study ED-DARRAJI, Abdellatif in the Specifier position of Tense Phrase 2018-03-08 application/pdf https://j.ideasspread.org/index.php/ilr/article/view/5 https://doi.org/10.30560/ilr.v1n1p1 eng eng IDEAS SPREAD https://j.ideasspread.org/index.php/ilr/article/view/5/3 https://j.ideasspread.org/index.php/ilr/article/view/5 doi:10.30560/ilr.v1n1p1 Copyright (c) 2018 ABDELLATIF ED-DARRAJI http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY International Linguistics Research; Vol 1 No 1 (2018); p1 2576-2982 2576-2974 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2018 ftideasspreadojs https://doi.org/10.30560/ilr.v1n1p1 2021-07-19T17:13:42Z This paper attempts to examine some argument-structure-reducing operations in Standard Arabic (SA for short). It is proposed here that some affixes (viz. prefixes and infixes) can decrease the argument structure (or valence) of the subclass of change-of-state (COS for short) verbs in the language under study. More specifically, these affixes function as unaccusativizers or decausativizers in that they can derive unaccusative COS verbs from causative COS verbs by suppressing the external argument of the latter verbs and syntactically promoting the direct object to subject position. Crucially, the ability of these affixes to affect the argument structure and the morphosyntactic realization of arguments is not limited to SA, but it has been attested in some other languages, such as Italian, Russian, Chichewa, Spanish, French, Eastern Armenian, West Greenlandic, and Tzutujil, among others. Article in Journal/Newspaper greenlandic Ideas Spread Inc. (E-Journals) International Linguistics Research 1 1 p1 |
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This paper attempts to examine some argument-structure-reducing operations in Standard Arabic (SA for short). It is proposed here that some affixes (viz. prefixes and infixes) can decrease the argument structure (or valence) of the subclass of change-of-state (COS for short) verbs in the language under study. More specifically, these affixes function as unaccusativizers or decausativizers in that they can derive unaccusative COS verbs from causative COS verbs by suppressing the external argument of the latter verbs and syntactically promoting the direct object to subject position. Crucially, the ability of these affixes to affect the argument structure and the morphosyntactic realization of arguments is not limited to SA, but it has been attested in some other languages, such as Italian, Russian, Chichewa, Spanish, French, Eastern Armenian, West Greenlandic, and Tzutujil, among others. |
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Argument-Structure-Reducing Operations in Standard Arabic: An Exploratory Comparative Study |
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Argument-Structure-Reducing Operations in Standard Arabic: An Exploratory Comparative Study |
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Argument-Structure-Reducing Operations in Standard Arabic: An Exploratory Comparative Study |
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Argument-Structure-Reducing Operations in Standard Arabic: An Exploratory Comparative Study |
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argument-structure-reducing operations in standard arabic: an exploratory comparative study |
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