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Agreement parallelism between sentences and noun phrases: A historical sketch

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Benmamoun, E
Published in: Lingua
August 1, 2003

This paper deals with a parallelism between sentences and noun phrases in Classical Arabic. The parallelism in question concerns the distribution of the number feature on the verb in the verb subject (VS) sequence and the (in-)definiteness feature on nouns in the N+NP sequence, the so-called semitic construct state (CS). In both cases, the verb and the head noun do not carry number and (in-)definiteness features respectively. Previous syntactic analyses have treated these two problems as two separate phenomena, thus denying any parallelism between the two constructions. This paper argues that this parallelism is genuine and is due to the verb in the VS sequence being historically a nominal element in a CS relation with the subject. © 2003 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

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Lingua

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0024-3841

Publication Date

August 1, 2003

Volume

113

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8

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747 / 764

Related Subject Headings

  • Languages & Linguistics
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 4704 Linguistics
  • 4703 Language studies
  • 2004 Linguistics
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1601 Anthropology
 

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Benmamoun, E. (2003). Agreement parallelism between sentences and noun phrases: A historical sketch. Lingua, 113(8), 747–764. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0024-3841(02)00127-4
Benmamoun, E. “Agreement parallelism between sentences and noun phrases: A historical sketch.” Lingua 113, no. 8 (August 1, 2003): 747–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0024-3841(02)00127-4.
Benmamoun, E. “Agreement parallelism between sentences and noun phrases: A historical sketch.” Lingua, vol. 113, no. 8, Aug. 2003, pp. 747–64. Scopus, doi:10.1016/S0024-3841(02)00127-4.
Journal cover image

Published In

Lingua

DOI

ISSN

0024-3841

Publication Date

August 1, 2003

Volume

113

Issue

8

Start / End Page

747 / 764

Related Subject Headings

  • Languages & Linguistics
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 4704 Linguistics
  • 4703 Language studies
  • 2004 Linguistics
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1601 Anthropology