Assignment of the Nominative Case in Jussive Structures in Arabic Syntax: A Minimalist View

An assumption given by Radford (1988, p. 307) says "Any clause which contains C contains a compatible I/". [...]mood clauses in English require an overt complementizer and any clause that contains [C] also contains an [T], then it follows that mood complement clause contains [T] node. [......

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Published inJournal of language teaching and research Vol. 3; no. 5; p. 915
Main Author Jalabneh, Atef Mustafa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Academy Publication Co., Ltd 01.09.2012
Subjects
Arabic language
Linguistics
Minimalist program
Morphology
Phonology
Researchers
Studies
Syntactic structures
Syntax
Theory
Saudi Arabia
India
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Summary:An assumption given by Radford (1988, p. 307) says "Any clause which contains C contains a compatible I/". [...]mood clauses in English require an overt complementizer and any clause that contains [C] also contains an [T], then it follows that mood complement clause contains [T] node. [...]though [T, T] is filled with empty tense, in (1 and 2), the subject position checks the nominative case feature. Agrs specifies the over as well as the covert subject for correct interpretation of Arabic sentence at LF after being attached to V. Agrs is strong feature and cannot be deleted at all levels of syntax. [...]it helps to understand the significance of jussive mood in Arabic syntax in a proper manner. If the subject is covert, it remains in the position of [Spec, T"]; however, if it is pro, it lands in the same position for case checking; but, it has to be omitted at the interface level. [...]case theory is a mechanism that accounts for the assignment of case to the subject and regulates the grammaticality of the sentence before LF.
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ISSN:1798-4769
2053-0684
DOI:10.4304/jltr.3.5.915-922