A minimalist approach to locality restrictions on wh-movement in Iraqi Arabic
Other Title(s)
منهج الحد الأدنى للقيود المحلية لأسئلة الاستفهام في اللهجة العرقية العربية
Author
Source
Journal of Scientific Research in Arts
Issue
Vol. 2017, Issue 18 (31 Dec. 2017)15 p.
Publisher
Ain Shams University Faculty of Women for Arts Science and Education
Publication Date
2017-12-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
15
Main Subjects
Languages & Comparative Literature
Abstract EN
This paper presents a new set of data concerning the behavior of wh-operators in Iraqi Arabic (IA).
It argues that Logical Form (LF) movement (Huang, 1982) in IA must observe a Locality Constraint (Rizzi,1990, Chomsky,1995, Richard,1997) according to which the wh operator must move to the closest Spec position of a [+wh] Complementizer (Comp).
Wh-operators in IA may occur in the Spec of the matrix Comp as in English or in-situ as in Chinese (Huang, 1994:149).
However, unlike Chinese and English, IA wh-operators may also occur in any Spec of an intermediate Comp between the matrix Comp and the in-situ position.
The wh-operator exercises wide scope over the entire question whether it occurs in-situ, in the Spec of the intermediate Comp or in the matrix Comp (Wahba, 1986, 1991).
This paper argues that this economy condition can elegantly be captured by Chomsky’s Principles and Parameters (Chomsky, 1986) and the Minimalist Program (Chomsky, 1995).
This paper is organized as follows: section (1) introduces the main diagnostics of wh-questions in IA.
Section (2) investigates the behavior of wh-operators in mono-clausal questions.
Section (3) analyzes the behavior of Bi- Clausal Questions with [+wh] and [-wh) Embedded Comp IA.
Section (4) concludes
American Psychological Association (APA)
Badi, Rudaynah Muhammad. 2017. A minimalist approach to locality restrictions on wh-movement in Iraqi Arabic. Journal of Scientific Research in Arts،Vol. 2017, no. 18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-881661
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Badi, Rudaynah Muhammad. A minimalist approach to locality restrictions on wh-movement in Iraqi Arabic. Journal of Scientific Research in Arts No. 18 (2017).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-881661
American Medical Association (AMA)
Badi, Rudaynah Muhammad. A minimalist approach to locality restrictions on wh-movement in Iraqi Arabic. Journal of Scientific Research in Arts. 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-881661
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-881661