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Papers by Kemel Juini
in the academic year 2004-2005 as a nondegree Fulbright grantee. During my stay at UIUC, Elabbas'... more in the academic year 2004-2005 as a nondegree Fulbright grantee. During my stay at UIUC, Elabbas's lectures convinced me of the view that a proper understanding of the feature structure of functional categories could enlighten linguistic theory on how the structure of sentences could vary cross-linguistically. Special thanks go to Dr. Elizabeth Pearce for willing to be my supervisor, for her patience to read through the so many drafts of chapters I was sending her, and for her advice on the numerous revisions I thereby had to make. I also thank Professor Richard S. Kayne for the invaluable opportunity he offered me during his visit at VUW to discuss with him some aspects of microparametric syntax relevant to my analysis of verbal inflection. Last, but not least, I thank my secondary supervisor Dr. Sasha Calhoun for her willingness to share ideas and offer suggestions, as well as Professor Laurie Bauer for his helpful comments on part of my thesis. I also want to thank Professor Tim
Advances in Language and Literary Studies, Dec 31, 2019
In this paper, I provide an analysis of 'verbless' sentences in Arabic (mainly, the Standard vari... more In this paper, I provide an analysis of 'verbless' sentences in Arabic (mainly, the Standard variety, SA) in light of the claims of the feature-based probe-goal-Agree system of Chomsky (2001, 2004) and such assumptions as held by Biberauer et al. (2010) about probe-goal Agree relations being parameterized according to the feature-structure of functional elements derived in sentence structure. This analysis is essentially different from previous analyses in the literature relating to 'verbless' sentences in Arabic, such as Benmamoun's (2008). In the present analysis, verbal inflection is the product of the valuation of a T-feature of verbs-i.e., [uT], as the unvalued uninterpretable counterpart of [iT] of tense (T as a node in sentence structure) in the syntax of languages. Using this framework of assumptions, I subsequently extend on Halila's (1992) analysis of the famma-construction in Tunisian Arabic. In such constructions, famma-raising is the result of the verb-like nature of famma as an auxiliary or copula, which ultimately enters a probe-goal-Agree relation with T for tense interpretation at Logical Form (LF) in the syntax.
in the academic year 2004-2005 as a nondegree Fulbright grantee. During my stay at UIUC, Elabbas'... more in the academic year 2004-2005 as a nondegree Fulbright grantee. During my stay at UIUC, Elabbas's lectures convinced me of the view that a proper understanding of the feature structure of functional categories could enlighten linguistic theory on how the structure of sentences could vary cross-linguistically. Special thanks go to Dr. Elizabeth Pearce for willing to be my supervisor, for her patience to read through the so many drafts of chapters I was sending her, and for her advice on the numerous revisions I thereby had to make. I also thank Professor Richard S. Kayne for the invaluable opportunity he offered me during his visit at VUW to discuss with him some aspects of microparametric syntax relevant to my analysis of verbal inflection. Last, but not least, I thank my secondary supervisor Dr. Sasha Calhoun for her willingness to share ideas and offer suggestions, as well as Professor Laurie Bauer for his helpful comments on part of my thesis. I also want to thank Professor Tim
Arab World English Journal, Mar 15, 2018
The derivation of common clause-type constructions like negation, interrogation (involving whelem... more The derivation of common clause-type constructions like negation, interrogation (involving whelements) and declarativity (including sentences that involve topics) is a universal of sentence structure that involves a number of functional elements/items for the expression of negation, interrogation, or declarativity, cross-linguistically. However, as the present study on the derivation of syntactic word order (including subject-verb agreement configurations) in Arabic varieties shows, such functional elements/items can take a particular functional dimension within the functional domain they are part of. This study relies on sample examples from the literature on Arabic (the standard variety in particular, but also other varieties such as Tunisian Arabic and Moroccan Arabicsee Jouini, (2014) for typical sentences from these varieties) to demonstrate how functional elements can project as functional nodes or be merged as head or specifier (Spec) elements in the structure of sentences. In the inflectional domain of sentencesor Inflectional Phrase (IP)-, variation in subject-verb agreement configurations in Arabic rests on the premise that a Subject node variably projects giving rise to differing subject-verb agreement configurations. The same is true of the projection of the complementizer domain of sentencesor Complementizer Phrase (CP)in Arabic, which splits into dedicated functional nodes in the standard variety of Arabic, but not in the modern spoken dialects. These differences in the projection of the IP-CP continuum establish functional relations upon which agreement and movement operations are derived and such notions as 'topic', 'subject' and 'focus' can be represented at the interface.
International Journal of Linguistics, Jan 20, 2020
The role played by the interpretability of features in the derivation and representation of sente... more The role played by the interpretability of features in the derivation and representation of sentences is a cornerstone of generative analyses of sentence structure. The most important structural aspect of such interpretability is the role played by the requirement that sentences have some representation of subjecthood in syntactic structurenamely, the EPP (Chomsky 1981) or the requirement that the subject of predication be somehow represented in the functional structure of the sentence. The emphasis on such a requirement in syntactic theory has brought forth a more basic characteristic of the derivation of sentences and their representation at the interfacenamely, structural relations whereby elements in the grammar are interpreted have to be strictly local and are based on the licensing of functional features (mainly, categorial). The very Merge and movement processes involved in this feature licensing bring elements (probe and goal) closer to each other. The effect of this "Probe-Goal Union" (Miyagawa 2010, p. 35) is that head-head and Spec-head agreement configurations become the basis of the derivation and representation of the functional structure of a language in terms of functional features for the expression of such discourse properties as topic-comment, interrogation, negation, the expression of focus and relativization. Topic-comment constructions, wh-questions, negative contrastive focus constructions, and relative clauses will form the testing ground for the working of such features in the derivation of functional structure of standard Arabic, in both SVO and VSO word orderings.
in the academic year 2004-2005 as a nondegree Fulbright grantee. During my stay at UIUC, Elabbas'... more in the academic year 2004-2005 as a nondegree Fulbright grantee. During my stay at UIUC, Elabbas's lectures convinced me of the view that a proper understanding of the feature structure of functional categories could enlighten linguistic theory on how the structure of sentences could vary cross-linguistically. Special thanks go to Dr. Elizabeth Pearce for willing to be my supervisor, for her patience to read through the so many drafts of chapters I was sending her, and for her advice on the numerous revisions I thereby had to make. I also thank Professor Richard S. Kayne for the invaluable opportunity he offered me during his visit at VUW to discuss with him some aspects of microparametric syntax relevant to my analysis of verbal inflection. Last, but not least, I thank my secondary supervisor Dr. Sasha Calhoun for her willingness to share ideas and offer suggestions, as well as Professor Laurie Bauer for his helpful comments on part of my thesis. I also want to thank Professor Tim
This paper deals with facets of the derivation and representation of sentences in Tunisian Arabic... more This paper deals with facets of the derivation and representation of sentences in Tunisian Arabic (TA), a Null Subject Language (NSL). The focus of investigation is on the dependency relations that make it possible to have sentences that are mainly the result of Merge and insertion/deletion processes in an Agree-, Phase-theoretic framework of assumptions (Chomsky 2001, 2004). These Merge processes also include movement (the operation Move as part of Merge) for the satisfaction of the EPP (Extended Projection Principle – namely, every sentence must have a subject) at the interface between syntax and discourse. Central to the EPP-feature driven movement analysis is the assumption that morphological rules operate first pre-syntactically, at vocabulary selection in the Numeration, and have post-syntactic effects, i.e. at Phonetic Form (PF), without affecting Logical Form (LF) representations (Roberts 2010a,b; Holmberg 2010). As in Miyagawa‟s (2010, pp. 5, 9) agreement approach to the EP...
Advances in Language and Literary Studies
In this paper, I provide an analysis of ‘verbless’ sentences in Arabic (mainly, the Standard vari... more In this paper, I provide an analysis of ‘verbless’ sentences in Arabic (mainly, the Standard variety, SA) in light of the claims of the feature-based probe-goal-Agree system of Chomsky (2001, 2004) and such assumptions as held by Biberauer et al. (2010) about probe-goal Agree relations being parameterized according to the feature-structure of functional elements derived in sentence structure. This analysis is essentially different from previous analyses in the literature relating to ‘verbless’ sentences in Arabic, such as Benmamoun’s (2008). In the present analysis, verbal inflection is the product of the valuation of a T-feature of verbs – i.e., [uT], as the unvalued uninterpretable counterpart of [iT] of tense (T as a node in sentence structure) in the syntax of languages. Using this framework of assumptions, I subsequently extend on Halila’s (1992) analysis of the famma-construction in Tunisian Arabic. In such constructions, famma-raising is the result of the verb-like nature of ...
SSRN Electronic Journal
The derivation of common clause-type constructions like negation, interrogation (involving whelem... more The derivation of common clause-type constructions like negation, interrogation (involving whelements) and declarativity (including sentences that involve topics) is a universal of sentence structure that involves a number of functional elements/items for the expression of negation, interrogation, or declarativity, cross-linguistically. However, as the present study on the derivation of syntactic word order (including subject-verb agreement configurations) in Arabic varieties shows, such functional elements/items can take a particular functional dimension within the functional domain they are part of. This study relies on sample examples from the literature on Arabic (the standard variety in particular, but also other varieties such as Tunisian Arabic and Moroccan Arabicsee Jouini, (2014) for typical sentences from these varieties) to demonstrate how functional elements can project as functional nodes or be merged as head or specifier (Spec) elements in the structure of sentences. In the inflectional domain of sentencesor Inflectional Phrase (IP)-, variation in subject-verb agreement configurations in Arabic rests on the premise that a Subject node variably projects giving rise to differing subject-verb agreement configurations. The same is true of the projection of the complementizer domain of sentencesor Complementizer Phrase (CP)in Arabic, which splits into dedicated functional nodes in the standard variety of Arabic, but not in the modern spoken dialects. These differences in the projection of the IP-CP continuum establish functional relations upon which agreement and movement operations are derived and such notions as 'topic', 'subject' and 'focus' can be represented at the interface.
International Journal of Linguistics
The role played by the interpretability of features in the derivation and representation of sente... more The role played by the interpretability of features in the derivation and representation of sentences is a cornerstone of generative analyses of sentence structure. The most important structural aspect of such interpretability is the role played by the requirement that sentences have some representation of subjecthood in syntactic structure – namely, the EPP (Chomsky 1981) or the requirement that the subject of predication be somehow represented in the functional structure of the sentence. The emphasis on such a requirement in syntactic theory has brought forth a more basic characteristic of the derivation of sentences and their representation at the interface – namely, structural relations whereby elements in the grammar are interpreted have to be strictly local and are based on the licensing of functional features (mainly, categorial). The very Merge and movement processes involved in this feature licensing bring elements (probe and goal) closer to each other. The effect of this ‘...
in the academic year 2004-2005 as a nondegree Fulbright grantee. During my stay at UIUC, Elabbas'... more in the academic year 2004-2005 as a nondegree Fulbright grantee. During my stay at UIUC, Elabbas's lectures convinced me of the view that a proper understanding of the feature structure of functional categories could enlighten linguistic theory on how the structure of sentences could vary cross-linguistically. Special thanks go to Dr. Elizabeth Pearce for willing to be my supervisor, for her patience to read through the so many drafts of chapters I was sending her, and for her advice on the numerous revisions I thereby had to make. I also thank Professor Richard S. Kayne for the invaluable opportunity he offered me during his visit at VUW to discuss with him some aspects of microparametric syntax relevant to my analysis of verbal inflection. Last, but not least, I thank my secondary supervisor Dr. Sasha Calhoun for her willingness to share ideas and offer suggestions, as well as Professor Laurie Bauer for his helpful comments on part of my thesis. I also want to thank Professor Tim
Advances in Language and Literary Studies, Dec 31, 2019
In this paper, I provide an analysis of 'verbless' sentences in Arabic (mainly, the Standard vari... more In this paper, I provide an analysis of 'verbless' sentences in Arabic (mainly, the Standard variety, SA) in light of the claims of the feature-based probe-goal-Agree system of Chomsky (2001, 2004) and such assumptions as held by Biberauer et al. (2010) about probe-goal Agree relations being parameterized according to the feature-structure of functional elements derived in sentence structure. This analysis is essentially different from previous analyses in the literature relating to 'verbless' sentences in Arabic, such as Benmamoun's (2008). In the present analysis, verbal inflection is the product of the valuation of a T-feature of verbs-i.e., [uT], as the unvalued uninterpretable counterpart of [iT] of tense (T as a node in sentence structure) in the syntax of languages. Using this framework of assumptions, I subsequently extend on Halila's (1992) analysis of the famma-construction in Tunisian Arabic. In such constructions, famma-raising is the result of the verb-like nature of famma as an auxiliary or copula, which ultimately enters a probe-goal-Agree relation with T for tense interpretation at Logical Form (LF) in the syntax.
in the academic year 2004-2005 as a nondegree Fulbright grantee. During my stay at UIUC, Elabbas'... more in the academic year 2004-2005 as a nondegree Fulbright grantee. During my stay at UIUC, Elabbas's lectures convinced me of the view that a proper understanding of the feature structure of functional categories could enlighten linguistic theory on how the structure of sentences could vary cross-linguistically. Special thanks go to Dr. Elizabeth Pearce for willing to be my supervisor, for her patience to read through the so many drafts of chapters I was sending her, and for her advice on the numerous revisions I thereby had to make. I also thank Professor Richard S. Kayne for the invaluable opportunity he offered me during his visit at VUW to discuss with him some aspects of microparametric syntax relevant to my analysis of verbal inflection. Last, but not least, I thank my secondary supervisor Dr. Sasha Calhoun for her willingness to share ideas and offer suggestions, as well as Professor Laurie Bauer for his helpful comments on part of my thesis. I also want to thank Professor Tim
Arab World English Journal, Mar 15, 2018
The derivation of common clause-type constructions like negation, interrogation (involving whelem... more The derivation of common clause-type constructions like negation, interrogation (involving whelements) and declarativity (including sentences that involve topics) is a universal of sentence structure that involves a number of functional elements/items for the expression of negation, interrogation, or declarativity, cross-linguistically. However, as the present study on the derivation of syntactic word order (including subject-verb agreement configurations) in Arabic varieties shows, such functional elements/items can take a particular functional dimension within the functional domain they are part of. This study relies on sample examples from the literature on Arabic (the standard variety in particular, but also other varieties such as Tunisian Arabic and Moroccan Arabicsee Jouini, (2014) for typical sentences from these varieties) to demonstrate how functional elements can project as functional nodes or be merged as head or specifier (Spec) elements in the structure of sentences. In the inflectional domain of sentencesor Inflectional Phrase (IP)-, variation in subject-verb agreement configurations in Arabic rests on the premise that a Subject node variably projects giving rise to differing subject-verb agreement configurations. The same is true of the projection of the complementizer domain of sentencesor Complementizer Phrase (CP)in Arabic, which splits into dedicated functional nodes in the standard variety of Arabic, but not in the modern spoken dialects. These differences in the projection of the IP-CP continuum establish functional relations upon which agreement and movement operations are derived and such notions as 'topic', 'subject' and 'focus' can be represented at the interface.
International Journal of Linguistics, Jan 20, 2020
The role played by the interpretability of features in the derivation and representation of sente... more The role played by the interpretability of features in the derivation and representation of sentences is a cornerstone of generative analyses of sentence structure. The most important structural aspect of such interpretability is the role played by the requirement that sentences have some representation of subjecthood in syntactic structurenamely, the EPP (Chomsky 1981) or the requirement that the subject of predication be somehow represented in the functional structure of the sentence. The emphasis on such a requirement in syntactic theory has brought forth a more basic characteristic of the derivation of sentences and their representation at the interfacenamely, structural relations whereby elements in the grammar are interpreted have to be strictly local and are based on the licensing of functional features (mainly, categorial). The very Merge and movement processes involved in this feature licensing bring elements (probe and goal) closer to each other. The effect of this "Probe-Goal Union" (Miyagawa 2010, p. 35) is that head-head and Spec-head agreement configurations become the basis of the derivation and representation of the functional structure of a language in terms of functional features for the expression of such discourse properties as topic-comment, interrogation, negation, the expression of focus and relativization. Topic-comment constructions, wh-questions, negative contrastive focus constructions, and relative clauses will form the testing ground for the working of such features in the derivation of functional structure of standard Arabic, in both SVO and VSO word orderings.
in the academic year 2004-2005 as a nondegree Fulbright grantee. During my stay at UIUC, Elabbas'... more in the academic year 2004-2005 as a nondegree Fulbright grantee. During my stay at UIUC, Elabbas's lectures convinced me of the view that a proper understanding of the feature structure of functional categories could enlighten linguistic theory on how the structure of sentences could vary cross-linguistically. Special thanks go to Dr. Elizabeth Pearce for willing to be my supervisor, for her patience to read through the so many drafts of chapters I was sending her, and for her advice on the numerous revisions I thereby had to make. I also thank Professor Richard S. Kayne for the invaluable opportunity he offered me during his visit at VUW to discuss with him some aspects of microparametric syntax relevant to my analysis of verbal inflection. Last, but not least, I thank my secondary supervisor Dr. Sasha Calhoun for her willingness to share ideas and offer suggestions, as well as Professor Laurie Bauer for his helpful comments on part of my thesis. I also want to thank Professor Tim
This paper deals with facets of the derivation and representation of sentences in Tunisian Arabic... more This paper deals with facets of the derivation and representation of sentences in Tunisian Arabic (TA), a Null Subject Language (NSL). The focus of investigation is on the dependency relations that make it possible to have sentences that are mainly the result of Merge and insertion/deletion processes in an Agree-, Phase-theoretic framework of assumptions (Chomsky 2001, 2004). These Merge processes also include movement (the operation Move as part of Merge) for the satisfaction of the EPP (Extended Projection Principle – namely, every sentence must have a subject) at the interface between syntax and discourse. Central to the EPP-feature driven movement analysis is the assumption that morphological rules operate first pre-syntactically, at vocabulary selection in the Numeration, and have post-syntactic effects, i.e. at Phonetic Form (PF), without affecting Logical Form (LF) representations (Roberts 2010a,b; Holmberg 2010). As in Miyagawa‟s (2010, pp. 5, 9) agreement approach to the EP...
Advances in Language and Literary Studies
In this paper, I provide an analysis of ‘verbless’ sentences in Arabic (mainly, the Standard vari... more In this paper, I provide an analysis of ‘verbless’ sentences in Arabic (mainly, the Standard variety, SA) in light of the claims of the feature-based probe-goal-Agree system of Chomsky (2001, 2004) and such assumptions as held by Biberauer et al. (2010) about probe-goal Agree relations being parameterized according to the feature-structure of functional elements derived in sentence structure. This analysis is essentially different from previous analyses in the literature relating to ‘verbless’ sentences in Arabic, such as Benmamoun’s (2008). In the present analysis, verbal inflection is the product of the valuation of a T-feature of verbs – i.e., [uT], as the unvalued uninterpretable counterpart of [iT] of tense (T as a node in sentence structure) in the syntax of languages. Using this framework of assumptions, I subsequently extend on Halila’s (1992) analysis of the famma-construction in Tunisian Arabic. In such constructions, famma-raising is the result of the verb-like nature of ...
SSRN Electronic Journal
The derivation of common clause-type constructions like negation, interrogation (involving whelem... more The derivation of common clause-type constructions like negation, interrogation (involving whelements) and declarativity (including sentences that involve topics) is a universal of sentence structure that involves a number of functional elements/items for the expression of negation, interrogation, or declarativity, cross-linguistically. However, as the present study on the derivation of syntactic word order (including subject-verb agreement configurations) in Arabic varieties shows, such functional elements/items can take a particular functional dimension within the functional domain they are part of. This study relies on sample examples from the literature on Arabic (the standard variety in particular, but also other varieties such as Tunisian Arabic and Moroccan Arabicsee Jouini, (2014) for typical sentences from these varieties) to demonstrate how functional elements can project as functional nodes or be merged as head or specifier (Spec) elements in the structure of sentences. In the inflectional domain of sentencesor Inflectional Phrase (IP)-, variation in subject-verb agreement configurations in Arabic rests on the premise that a Subject node variably projects giving rise to differing subject-verb agreement configurations. The same is true of the projection of the complementizer domain of sentencesor Complementizer Phrase (CP)in Arabic, which splits into dedicated functional nodes in the standard variety of Arabic, but not in the modern spoken dialects. These differences in the projection of the IP-CP continuum establish functional relations upon which agreement and movement operations are derived and such notions as 'topic', 'subject' and 'focus' can be represented at the interface.
International Journal of Linguistics
The role played by the interpretability of features in the derivation and representation of sente... more The role played by the interpretability of features in the derivation and representation of sentences is a cornerstone of generative analyses of sentence structure. The most important structural aspect of such interpretability is the role played by the requirement that sentences have some representation of subjecthood in syntactic structure – namely, the EPP (Chomsky 1981) or the requirement that the subject of predication be somehow represented in the functional structure of the sentence. The emphasis on such a requirement in syntactic theory has brought forth a more basic characteristic of the derivation of sentences and their representation at the interface – namely, structural relations whereby elements in the grammar are interpreted have to be strictly local and are based on the licensing of functional features (mainly, categorial). The very Merge and movement processes involved in this feature licensing bring elements (probe and goal) closer to each other. The effect of this ‘...