Hamid Ouali

List of John Benjamins publications for which Hamid Ouali plays a role.

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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Formulaic Language: Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations

Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley

[Typological Studies in Language, 83] 2009. xxiv, 361 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

Formulaic Language: Volume 1. Distribution and historical change

Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley

[Typological Studies in Language, 82] 2009. xxiv, 315 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Lexicography | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

Articles

This paper discusses how Arabic dialects disambiguate between the progressive and the habitual aspect, using grammaticalized participles of the verbs for ‘sit’ and/or ‘work’ to mark the progressive aspect. These grammaticalized aspect markers appear in full and truncated forms. Synchronic data… read more
This paper revisits three issues related to the complementizer layer (CP) in Standard Arabic. We reexamine them against the backdrop of Shlonsky’s 2000 analysis, and put forward a new proposal couched in Rizzi’s 1997 split-CP hypothesis. First, we examine the apparent distributional and… read more
In this paper, we present three puzzling observations concerning a class of adjectival constructions in Standard Arabic: (i) pleonastic definiteness, where an instance of definite morphology is semantically transparent, (ii) required resumption, where the absence of a resumptive pronoun leads to… read more
Motion verbs, when they co-occur with main verbs in what we call motion light verb constructions, have an aspectual function. In this paper, we examine the properties of these motion verbs and the implication of their distribution on clause structure. We argue that motion light verbs and main verbs… read more
Ouali, Hamid 2014 Multiple agreement in ArabicPerspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. New York, 2012, Khamis-Dakwar, Reem and Karen Froud (eds.), pp. 121–134 | Article
This article analyzes multiple subject verb agreement in complex tense clauses in light of the Feature Inheritance (FI) approach (Chomsky 2008, 2013). After establishing that these complex tense clauses are bi-clausal with two TP projections and one CP, I argue that they present a challenge to FI… read more
The aim of this paper is threefold: First, we provide a descriptive account of the facts of negative concord (nc) in both Egyptian and Moroccan Arabic, showing how the two dialects are similar, and how they differ in this regard. Second, we discuss previous analyses of nc and how they fare in… read more
Ouali, Hamid 2010 Computation efficiency and feature inheritance in crash-proof syntaxExploring Crash-Proof Grammars, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 15–30 | Article
Frampton & Guttmann (2002) argue that a language design that assumes “crashing derivations” would seem to be less computationally efficient than a design which outputs only convergent derivations. Therefore, they advocate a “crash-proof” syntax which requires constraining all the computational… read more
Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley 2009 Introduction. Approaches to the study of formulaeFormulaic Language: Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations, Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. xi–xxiv | Miscellaneous
Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley 2009 Introduction. Approaches to the study of formulaeFormulaic Language: Volume 1. Distribution and historical change, Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. xi–xxiv | Miscellaneous
Ouali, Hamid and Catherine Fortin 2007 The syntax of complex tense in Moroccan ArabicPerspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Benmamoun, Elabbas (ed.), pp. 175–189 | Article