EPP-less clauses and agreement asymmetry in Arabic : a new analysis

Abstract EN

I present in this paper a new analysis of the facts of agreement asymmetry in Standard Arabic based on the most recent ramifications of the Minimalist Program.

In particular, I argue that the old facts of Standard Arabic agreement asymmetry can be accounted for more elegantly if we assume that Standard Arabic lacks the Extended "Projection Principle (EPP).

I demonstrate that the other puzzling phenomena concomitant to the asymmetry follow if we adopt this assumption.