Why Arabic verbless sentences are verbless : a recent study

الملخص EN

The present paper deals with the syntactic structure of Arabic verbless sentences in the framework of minimalist syntax(1) and recent theories.

The aim of this paper is to show that thematic features [φ-features]: (number, person and gender) are not the only features that can be inherited from C to T (cf.

Chomsky 2008(2), Richards 2007)(3).

T can also inherit TST-feature (i.e.

speech time feature).