- Pfad:
-
Farbkarte
Zeitschrift
- Titel:
- Linguistics
- Erschienen:
-
Berlin: de Gruyter
- Fußnote:
- Gesehen am 24. Januar 2023
- Open Access
- Namensnennung 4.0 International
- Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet
- C!URL-Ä(27-01-12)
- Umfang:
- Online-Ressource
- ISSN:
- 1613-396X
- ZDB-ID:
-
1469023-8
- VÖBB-Katalog:
- 15134827
- Schlagworte:
- Linguistik ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Publikation
- ZLB-Systematik:
- Sprache
- Sammlung:
- Sprache
- Copyright:
- Rechte vorbehalten
- Zugriffsberechtigung:
- Freier Zugang
Aufsatz
- Titel:
- Low topics are not IP-external: a reply to Alzayid (2025)
- Erschienen:
-
Berlin: de Gruyter, 2025
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Zusammenfassung:
- Abstract: This article defends the hypothesis that right-dislocated elements in Najdi Arabic (NA) are IP-internal low topics, contra Alzayid's (2025) recent claims of their IP-external status (Alzayid, Ali. 2025. On low topics in Najdi Arabic: A rejoinder to Alshamari and Jarrah (2022). Linguistics 63.6). Through a critical evaluation of Alzayid’s three empirical arguments – centred on NPI licensing, subject-verb agreement in VOS configurations, and wh-focus interactions – this reply demonstrates that his conclusions rest on misinterpreted diagnostics or theoretically untenable assumptions. Drawing on the cartographic tradition and phase theory, I argue that right-dislocated constituents exhibiting clitic doubling and definiteness effects are best analysed as merged within the low periphery, between TP and vP. The Agree relations between T and the low subject remain intact without invoking pretheoretical machinery or IP-external adjunction. Moreover, I show that NPI behaviour reflects semantic indefiniteness rather than syntactic height. This analysis reinforces the view that discourse-related material in Arabic clause structure can occupy structurally encoded low positions, thus supporting a richly articulated left and low periphery.
- Umfang:
- Online-Ressource
- Fußnote:
- Open Access
- Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet
- Schlagworte:
- low topics ; Najdi Arabic ; VOS configurations ; NPI licensing ; wh-focus interactions
- ZLB-Systematik:
- Sprache
- Dewey-Dezimalklassifikation:
- 360 Soziale Probleme, Sozialarbeit
- Sammlung:
- Sprache
- Copyright:
- CC BY
- Zugriffsberechtigung:
- Freier Zugang
