عنوان

Hyperraising in Jordanian Arabic

Number

TLpq2476121572

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Hyperraising in Jordanian Arabic

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Farghal, Tariq Mohammed

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Munn, Alan

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Michigan State University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

104

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Body granting the degree

Michigan State University

Text preceding or following the note

2020

Text of Note

This thesis addresses the phenomenon of hyperraising (HR) in Jordanian Arabic where the embeddedsubject escapes its CP boundary by raising to the matrix subject position. Earlier proposals on Brazilian Portuguese (BP) (Fong, 2018, 2017; Martins and Nunes, 2010; Nunes, 2008) support the analysis of an A-movement of the subject NP to the matrix clause of the raising predicate parecer 'seem' crossing the head C que 'that'. Jordanian Arabic seems to adopt the same strategy by showing sensitivity to syntactic factors of intervention and islands that support an analysis of raising. Agreement plays a critical role in the analysis as different agreement patterns are useful cues for identifying distinct structures (unraised vs. raised or raised vs. left-dislocation). The targeted raising predicate is shikil and it seems to have a nominal value '+N', contrary to its usual verbal status in other languages. Hyper-raising of subject to subject (e.g. Brazilian Portuguese, Maithili) seems to be the counterpart of infinitival subject raising (e.g. English, Spanish) and its existence raises critical questions about the syntax of raising more generally.

Language

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics

Farghal, Tariq Mohammed

Munn, Alan

Electronic name

p

[Thesis]

276903

a

Y