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Negative concord in modern standard Arabic
Other Title(s)
ظاهرة انسجام النفي في اللغة العربية الفصيحة المعاصرة
Author
al-Sarayirah, Atif Ata Allah Id
Source
Mu'tah Lil-Buhuth Wad-Dirasat : Humanities and Social Sciences Series
Issue
Vol. 33, Issue 2 (30 Apr. 2018), pp.13-55, 43 p.
Publisher
Mutah University Deanship of Academic Research
Publication Date
2018-04-30
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
43
Main Subjects
Arabic language and Literature
Abstract EN
This study examines negative concord (NC) constructions in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
The study shows that MSA is a strict NC language with n-words that must co-occur with a negative expression yielding only one logical negation to the semantics in spite of the fact that they can contribute negation on their own in fragment answers.
I argue that an analysis of NC in MSA as syntactic agreement whereby n-words are assumed be non-negative indefinites with a formal negative feature that needs to be checked and deleted against semantic negation can better capture the distribution of n-words in the language than other approaches that take n-words to be either negative polarity items (NPIs) or negative quantifiers.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Sarayirah, Atif Ata Allah Id. 2018. Negative concord in modern standard Arabic. Mu'tah Lil-Buhuth Wad-Dirasat : Humanities and Social Sciences Series،Vol. 33, no. 2, pp.13-55.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-905444
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Sarayirah, Atif Ata Allah Id. Negative concord in modern standard Arabic. Mu'tah Lil-Buhuth Wad-Dirasat : Humanities and Social Sciences Series Vol. 33, no. 2 (2018), pp.13-55.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-905444
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Sarayirah, Atif Ata Allah Id. Negative concord in modern standard Arabic. Mu'tah Lil-Buhuth Wad-Dirasat : Humanities and Social Sciences Series. 2018. Vol. 33, no. 2, pp.13-55.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-905444
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 53-55
Record ID
BIM-905444