Affiliation:
1. Department of English Language , University of Ha'il , Ha'il , Saudi Arabia
Abstract
AbstractThis article argues that DP in Hail Arabic is dominated by a C-domain, with C-layers, adducing empirical evidence from C-particles that interact with DP-internal material,ʔektɪnmarking Topic andzadmarking Contrastive Focus. Analyzing Construct State phenomenon, it is shown thatʔektɪnexclusively marks the possessum N. The possessor DP is marked without a C-particle. The mechanism of topicalizing the possessor DP is via co-indexation with a clitic φ-agreeing with the possessor DP, spelled out on the possessum N, where the possessum N functions asLexical Strategy.Lexical Strategythough is not an option to topicalize the possessum N; the possessor DP cannot host a clitic that φ-agrees with the possessum N. Merger ofʔektɪnis thus motivated on morphological grounds. HA syntax instantiates a C-layer above DP, materialized byʔektɪnwhich φ-agrees with the possessum N, what I termFunctional Strategy. Further, a C-layer encoding Contrastive Focus headed by C-particlezadand a C-layer headed by the Shifting Topic C-particleʕad, both of which mark by movement of the CS-internal constituent, merge above DP and co-occur withʔektɪn. Within the backbones of the Cartographic approach, this phenomenon provides evidence that the DP architecture in HA is ripe for Split-DP analysis.
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