An LFG Analysis of Gapping Constructions in Taif Arabic

Autor/in	Alzaid, Muhammad Swaileh A.
Titel	An LFG Analysis of Gapping Constructions in Taif Arabic
Quelle	In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 9 (2018) 5, S.96-99 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2203-4714
Schlagwörter	Semitic Languages; Language Variation; Grammar; Syntax; Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Foreign Countries; Saudi Arabia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arabisch; Hebräisch; Sprachenvielfalt; Grammatik; Structural analysis; Strukturanalyse; Ausland; Saudi-Arabien
Abstract	We identify and propose an analysis in LFG of Gapping construction in Taif "Hijazi" Arabic (TA). Gapping occurs in a coordination structure where the initial conjunct is syntactically complete and the non-initial conjunct is incomplete. To my knowledge, there is no previous description or analysis of gapping in TA. There have been two competing analyses in the literature on gapping, which view gapping as a result of a trace of movement and non-constituent coordination. In this paper, we show that none of these approaches succeeds to account for Gapping in TA, and hence, they fail to capture the facts of gapping in this Arabic dialect. Instead, we adopts a function-spreading approach within Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), and show how it is able to account for the facts of gapping in TA, using mechanisms proposed independently for other construction types. (As Provided).
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