The focus function and derivation of object displacement in Standard Arabic

The focus function and derivation of object displacement in Standard Arabic

The aim of this paper is to provide a minimalist account of object displacement in terms of its trigger and its landing site in the syntactic tree structure of Standard Arabic (SA) clauses. The account utilizes Chomsky's concept of edge feature (EF) within the Minimalist Program and Rizzi'...

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Main Author: Abdulkhaliq Alazzawie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-04-01
Series:Heliyon
Subjects:
Arts & humanities
Linguistics
Edge feature
Split-CP
Focus
Topicalization
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402030637X
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spelling doaj-16608eba948846f2ad2241f8b1d1a05d2020-11-25T02:12:12ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402020-04-0164e03792The focus function and derivation of object displacement in Standard ArabicAbdulkhaliq Alazzawie0Corresponding author.; Department of Foreign Languages, University of Nizwa, P.O. Box 33, 616, OmanThe aim of this paper is to provide a minimalist account of object displacement in terms of its trigger and its landing site in the syntactic tree structure of Standard Arabic (SA) clauses. The account utilizes Chomsky's concept of edge feature (EF) within the Minimalist Program and Rizzi's Split-CP analysis. In terms of its data scope, the paper is limited to a class of data identified as displaying the Verb – Object – Subject (VOS) order wherein the object is a full DP (not a pronominal clitic), and appears in a position preceding the subject. It will be argued that this order is the result of focus displacement of the object from its canonical position inside VP across the subject DP to the outer periphery of vP. The result of this operation is a marked order VOS driven by the vP edge feature (EF) to achieve the pragmatic function of focus.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402030637XArts & humanitiesLinguisticsEdge featureSplit-CPFocusTopicalization
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author Abdulkhaliq Alazzawie
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The focus function and derivation of object displacement in Standard Arabic
Heliyon
Arts & humanities
Linguistics
Edge feature
Split-CP
Focus
Topicalization
author_facet Abdulkhaliq Alazzawie
author_sort Abdulkhaliq Alazzawie
title The focus function and derivation of object displacement in Standard Arabic
title_short The focus function and derivation of object displacement in Standard Arabic
title_full The focus function and derivation of object displacement in Standard Arabic
title_fullStr The focus function and derivation of object displacement in Standard Arabic
title_full_unstemmed The focus function and derivation of object displacement in Standard Arabic
title_sort focus function and derivation of object displacement in standard arabic
publisher Elsevier
series Heliyon
issn 2405-8440
publishDate 2020-04-01
description The aim of this paper is to provide a minimalist account of object displacement in terms of its trigger and its landing site in the syntactic tree structure of Standard Arabic (SA) clauses. The account utilizes Chomsky's concept of edge feature (EF) within the Minimalist Program and Rizzi's Split-CP analysis. In terms of its data scope, the paper is limited to a class of data identified as displaying the Verb – Object – Subject (VOS) order wherein the object is a full DP (not a pronominal clitic), and appears in a position preceding the subject. It will be argued that this order is the result of focus displacement of the object from its canonical position inside VP across the subject DP to the outer periphery of vP. The result of this operation is a marked order VOS driven by the vP edge feature (EF) to achieve the pragmatic function of focus.
topic Arts & humanities
Linguistics
Edge feature
Split-CP
Focus
Topicalization
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402030637X
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