Resumption in Jordanian Arabic : definite relative clauses and Wh-questions

العناوين الأخرى

ضمائر الاستئناف في اللهجة الأردنية : ضمائر الوصل و الاستفهام

مقدم أطروحة جامعية

al-Kasasibah, Mays Awdah

مشرف أطروحة جامعية

al-Aqarbah, Raniya Nayif

أعضاء اللجنة

Abd al-Haqq, Fawwaz Muhammad
al-Rashdan, Bashshar Shahir
al-Sarayirah, Atif Ata Allah Id

الجامعة

جامعة مؤتة

الكلية

كلية الآداب

القسم الأكاديمي

قسم اللغة الإنجليزية و آدابها

دولة الجامعة

الأردن

الدرجة العلمية

ماجستير

تاريخ الدرجة العلمية

2017

الملخص الإنجليزي

This study investigates gap and resumption strategies in Jordanian Arabic (JA).

Resumption strategy is classified into two types according to its availability to be part of the languages' grammar; grammatical resumptive is assumed to be part of the language's grammar as in Jordanian Arabic (JA), and intrusive Resumptive is not a part of the language's grammar as in English.

The researcher conducted two Acceptability Judgment Tasks on wh-interrogatives and definite relative clauses in JA to examine the impact of three independent variables: Resumption, Length, and Islandhood on the acceptability of Gaps versus Resumption in a grammatical resumption language, a rarely investigated variety from the most recent experimental approach to syntax.

The findings reveal that grammatical resumption patterns with intrusive resumption in showing sensitivity to islands.

This finding undermines the assumption that grammatical resumption saves island violations.

It also has some important implications to the syntactic accounts of resumption.

First, if sensitivity to islands is a robust diagnosis of movement, then resumption is a result of movement but differs from gaps in the Spell-Out.

Alternatively, if resumption is only base-generated, then the sensitivity to islands as a diagnosis of movement should be reconsidered.

التخصصات الرئيسية

اللغات والآداب المقارنة

عدد الصفحات

108

قائمة المحتويات

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

نوع البيانات

رسائل جامعية

رقم السجل

BIM-780314