Multiple wh-questions in Arabic

الملخص EN

The main concern of this paper is to investigate the syntactic properties of multiple wh-quastion in Arabic.

An adequate account for handling this important phenomenon in the grammar of Arabic will be proposed.

It will be shown that in addition to S-structure and D0structure, Arabic possesses a third level of representation, that is, logical form (LF).

It will also be demon structured that the empty category principle at LF plays a crucial role in exam lining the well – formedness condition laced on the generation and movement of multiple wh-question in Arabic.