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The Refutation of the Grammarians by Ibn Mada' al-Qurtubi:

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The Refutation of the Grammarians by Ibn Mada' al-Qurtubi:

[Thesis]

Philip Alan Johnson

A translation, with syntactic analysis of "Bab al-Ishtighal"

A. S. Gamal

The University of Arizona

1998

184-184 p.

Ph.D.

The University of Arizona

1998

Government and Binding Theory dictates that the case features of noun phrases are assigned structurally under government. On this basis the claim by Ibn Mada'al-Qurtubi, in The Refutation of the Grammarians, that case is assigned solely by the language user on strictly semantic grounds, is rejected; also untenable, however, is the position of traditional Arab grammarians that case can, in some contexts, be assigned by "concealed" governors, as the Projection and Structure-Preserving Principles require that material having semantic content be visible at all levels of representation. Government and Binding principles are adequate to account for case-assignment in the issues raised by Ibn Mada'; they cannot, however, offer a clear solution to the apparent violation of Principle C of the Binding Theory found in some examples of bab al-tanazu', the category of "contention in government".

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al Qurtub

Arabic

i, Ibn Ma

Language, literature and linguistics

syntax

A. S. Gamal

Philip Alan Johnson

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[Thesis]

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