Anaphoricty and logophoricity in Egyptian Arabic (EA)‎ : a minimalist approach

الملخص EN

The purpose of this study is to investigate anaphoricity and logophoricity with a special focus on Egyptian Arabic (EA), which is the standard colloquial Egyptian dialect of the Arabic language.

The analysis investigated in this study addresses two issues.

The first issue is to find an explanation for the violation of some reflexives in EA.

The second issue is to specify the diagnostics of logophors in EA.

To find answers for these two issues, the analysis of anaphoricity and logophoricity is introduced within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalist Program (MP) (1995, 2000, and 2004) and its basic principles.

The Chomskyan Principle A of the Binding Theory (BT) deals with reflexives within the domain of the clause.

In contrast, logophors, in EA, violate the conditions constrained by Principle A of BT.

In order to account for this violation, it is necessary to resort to Syntax, Pragmatics, and Syntax interface.

This analysis confirms the hypothesis that logophors are not puzzling and can be analyzed under a universal mechanism and diagnostics that can account for logophoricity in EA and other languages too.