Ahmad Al-Qassas

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ahmad Al-Qassas plays a role.

Journal

Arabic Linguistics (ARLI)

Edited by Enam Al-Wer, Lina Choueiri and Uri Horesh

ISSN 2950-1806 | E-ISSN 2950-1792

Articles

Al-Qassas, Ahmad 2019 The syntax of negative coordination in Jordanian Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXX: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics, Stony Brook, New York, 2016 and Norman, Oklahoma, 2017, Khalfaoui, Amel and Matthew A. Tucker (eds.), pp. 93–112 | Chapter

Coordination constructions can either conjoin or disjoin phrases or clauses. Languages vary in the strategies employed to establish these logical relationships, creating distributional contrasts and co-occurrence restrictions on the coordination particles. This paper describes negative coordination… read more

Al-Qassas, Ahmad 2016 Temporal NPIs and NCIs as adverb phrases: The case of Jordanian Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Gainesville, Florida, 2014, Haddad, Youssef A. and Eric Potsdam (eds.), pp. 129–152 | Article

I analyze the status of the temporal NPI ʕʊmr and NCI baʕd in Jordanian Arabic and explain their distribution and syntactic licensing. Despite their head-like properties (hosting clitics and assigning case), I argue that both elements are AdvPs in Spec-XP positions rather than heads projecting… read more