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Question formation in Mehri.

Alrowsa, Waleed Abdullah.

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Question formation in Mehri.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Question formation in Mehri./
Author:	Alrowsa, Waleed Abdullah.
Description:	185 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-05A(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3647804
ISBN:	9781321421194

Question formation in Mehri.
Alrowsa, Waleed Abdullah.

Question formation in Mehri. - 185 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2014.

This thesis seeks to provide a systematic study of question formation in Mehri, a Modern South Arabian Language for which many syntactic facts remain largely undescribed. The thesis has three main goals: First, a presentation of a sketch grammar of the Ben Zabinut dialect of Mehri, a previously undescribed dialect; second, an in-depth description and discussion of question formation in Mehri; third, an analysis and theoretical discussion of the question formation facts within the context of minimalist syntactic theory and theories of Semitic syntax in particular. It is hoped this study contributes to the knowledge of the Mehri language and Modern South Arabian languages, as well as leading to better-informed analyses and discussions of the syntax of questions in Semitic languages and language in general.

ISBN: 9781321421194Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

Question formation in Mehri.
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520 $a Mehri exhibits optional wh-fronting in which a question word may appear in situ or moved to the front of a clause (as well as to the front of an intermediate clause). I argue that the wh-movement facts from questioning arguments show clear resemblance with relativization and clefting, suggesting these are the mechanisms responsible for optional fronting of these arguments. However, fronting of wh-adjuncts is not similar to relativization and clefting, but instead is similar to topicalization of an NP. In neither case, I argue, is movement of the wh-word responsible for licensing it as an interrogative, demonstrating that the fronted phrases are insensitive to islands. Instead, I suggest these are licensed through unselective binding (Pesetsky 1987) as has been suggested for other Semitic languages with optional wh-fronting, such as Egyptian Arabic (Soltan 2012).
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