Marwan Jarrah
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marwan Jarrah is involved.
2026 Bridging meaning and context: A pragmatic study of parenthetical explications in Qur’anic translation Babel: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines explicature construction in the English translation of the Qur’an, focusing on parenthetical insertions in the Hilali-Khan version. These additions make implicit meanings explicit, guiding readers through culturally and theologically dense material. Applying Huang’s (2014)… read more
2023 Morphological case, ɸ-agreement, and overt movement interactions in Arabic grammar Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, 2020, Azaz, Mahmoud (ed.), pp. 105–124 | Chapter
Following Alshamari (2017) and Jarrah (2019), this article offers evidence in favor of systematic interactions of morphological case, ɸ-agreement and overt movement in Arabic grammar. It essentially argues that these three aspects of grammar serve one specific purpose, namely to record (i.e.,… read more
2023 Translating explicatures between Arabic and English: Completing logical forms and calculating pragmatic competence and metalinguistic knowledge Babel 69:2, pp. 188–215 | Article
This article explores which areas of explicature identification (i.e., disambiguation, reference resolution, saturation, free enrichment, and ad hoc concept constructions) were more attended to in Arabic-English translation. Twenty translators were asked to render from one language into another… read more
2022 Remnant-movement analysis of questions with final wh-words in Jordanian Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII: Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 2019, Ali, Abdel-Khalig and Atiqa Hachimi (eds.), pp. 147–166 | Chapter
This paper investigates a subclass of questions in which the wh-word appears question-finally in Jordanian Arabic. It proposes that such questions are syntactically derived by two movements. First, the wh-word moves to the Spec of Focus Phrase in the left periphery of the question (cf. Rizzi,… read more