Ekab Al-Shawashreh

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Jarrah, Marwan and Ekab Al-Shawashreh 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