Agreement and coordination in Hijazi Arabic : a minimalist approach

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This paper aims to investigate subject-verb agreement patterns in coordinated structures in Hijazi Arabic, concentrating on the phenomenon of first conjunct agreement.

It attempts to explore the mechanisms by which first conjunct agreement operates in Hijazi Arabic from a minimalist perspective.

It also discusses previous approaches to first conjunct agreement in other varieties of Arabic and argues against those that treats agreement in terms of late MERGE or decomposed MERGE.

This study demonstrates that subject-verb agreement patterns in coordinated structures in Hijazi Arabic can be accommodated within Crone’s (2017) analysis for Lebanese Arabic which relies on employing some general constraints on the operation AGREE and the operation MOVE and on the interaction between them.