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Assignment of Case: CP & TP • CP and TP both assigning case to the “subject” DP of the clause • C and T with case features have to discharge them • The case feature that is explicitly realized is the case from the highest head in the tree. CP's case is realized on the "subject" TP's case is realized on the "subject" ʔaʕtaqidu ?anna l-walad-a fii l-bayt-i Believe.1.a. that the-child-ACC in the-house-GEN ‘I believe that the child is in the house.’ qultu ʔinnha-hu waSala l-ʔawlaad-u said.1.s. that-it arrived.3.m.s. the–children-NOM ‘I said that the boys arrived’
A s o f s i g n C a s m e e : CP's Acc.Case is realized n t C & T TP's Nom.Case is realized
Page 1 and 2: العربية Arabic Syntax Erika
Page 3 and 4: Overview • Word Order VSO or not
Page 5 and 6: Hierarchy of the DP DP>(Poss)>nP>NP
Page 10 and 11: Verbless Sentence • In cases wher
Page 12 and 13: Negation A. laa ya-qra-u Zayd-un al
Page 14 and 15: Interrogatives: Wh-Questions • Wh
Page 18 and 19: pro • verb w/ all of its inflecti
Page 20 and 21: ECM continued ʔaʕtaqidu ʔanna-hu

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