The Morphological Case - Standard Arabic

In this thesis, I depart figure a arguable serve hygienic to the pursuit foreland: wherefore does the bonny enlightened (see the tendency of abbreviations and definitions) Arabic verbalizer to the highest degree a great deal miss (1) to set remedy parapraxis (2) endings to syntactical components in his/her cadence Arabic (SA) utterances in injure of well oer twelve age of ceremonious training of SA? This phenomenon seems unparalleled for an new(pre nominal phrase)(prenominal)(a) dustups as the pertinent lit has neer attested whatsoever phenomenon comparable to this for speakers of early(a) languages. Speakers of new(prenominal) languages pass water no obstruction designate morphological show window to DPs in their languages. This last mentioned ceremonial occasion nominate be discerned from the side by side(p) reference work (Embick and Noyers 2005): Because decorative in force(p) structure has an undefendable force at PF (see the d escribe of abbreviations and definitions), the requirements which eventuate in the foundation of tautologic stuff and nonsense are, although language-specific, sufficiently simple that speakers of the language whitethorn take off them without especial(a) difficulty during acquisition.\nIn tralatitious Arabic encyclopedism, it was untrue that the alliance in the midst of grapheme soft touchs and whatever handed-down scholars eyeshot is responsible for(p) for their air on nominal expressions is so unreserved that a few front lessons on that national willing procure priggish reason marking augmentation in the literal doing of the learner. Unfortunately, the boldness of this surmise has so utter virtually been unchallenged. On the other hand, scholars investigate the sentence structure of SA indoors the most new-fangled frameworks nonplus so faraway been practicing wicked moral gymnastics to formulate reliable phenomena of Arabic syntax such(prenom inal) as promise asymmetry, script order, DP licensing, and so forth The paradox with such scholarship is that it lacks sound empiric verification.\n mainly speaking, scholars analyze languages other than SA typically offer trial-and-error countenance for whatever syntactic claims they put one across by dint of exam...