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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIV–XXV: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics. Texas, 2010 and Arizona, 2011
Edited by Samira Farwaneh and Hamid Ouali
[Studies in Arabic Linguistics 1] 2014
► pp. 139–158

Negation and heads

Agreement and maximal projections in Palestinian Arabic

| The University of Texas at Austin

This paper assumes and extends Benmamoun’s (2000) analysis of negation in Arabic. It is suggested that merger with negation in Palestinian Arabic is sensitive to the feature of person. An element may raise to merge with negation only if Neg has this feature present. This feature marks Benmamoun’s [D] as strong. This marking of strength forces eligible categories to move, check this feature and merge with negation. Otherwise, no raising takes place.

Published online: 29 August 2014
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