Pronominalization and clitic doubling in Syrian and Omani Arabic
This article treats cliticization of a pronoun to a syntactic host and doubling of the clitic pronoun with a non-pronominal counterpart in Syrian and Omani Arabic. Although the two varieties are closely related and the morphological paradigms they display are very similar, the pronominalization and...
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| description | This article treats cliticization of a pronoun to a syntactic host and doubling of the clitic pronoun with a non-pronominal counterpart in Syrian and Omani Arabic. Although the two varieties are closely related and the morphological paradigms they display are very similar, the pronominalization and clitic pronoun doubling patterns they display are quite different. We trace this difference to a basic difference in whether the relevant syntactic processes are sensitive to intervention effects in the two dialects, with the result being that the restrictiveness of pronominalization and clitic pronoun doubling patterns parallel the restrictiveness of basic word order patterns – whether double-object constructions are ‘symmetric’ or ‘asymmetric’ – with Syrian being the more restrictive of the two varieties. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9d5b01105d594900a6e17f4cf366e1b12024-04-15T07:41:57ZengDe GruyterLinguistics0024-39491613-396X2022-09-016051295133610.1515/ling-2019-0053Pronominalization and clitic doubling in Syrian and Omani ArabicHallman Peter0Al-Balushi Rashid1Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Freyung 6/6, Vienna, AustriaDepartment of English, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Seeb, OmanThis article treats cliticization of a pronoun to a syntactic host and doubling of the clitic pronoun with a non-pronominal counterpart in Syrian and Omani Arabic. Although the two varieties are closely related and the morphological paradigms they display are very similar, the pronominalization and clitic pronoun doubling patterns they display are quite different. We trace this difference to a basic difference in whether the relevant syntactic processes are sensitive to intervention effects in the two dialects, with the result being that the restrictiveness of pronominalization and clitic pronoun doubling patterns parallel the restrictiveness of basic word order patterns – whether double-object constructions are ‘symmetric’ or ‘asymmetric’ – with Syrian being the more restrictive of the two varieties.https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2019-0053arabicargument structureclitic doublingcliticsdouble-object alternationdouble-object constructionsobject symmetry |
| spellingShingle | Hallman Peter Al-Balushi Rashid Pronominalization and clitic doubling in Syrian and Omani Arabic Linguistics arabic argument structure clitic doubling clitics double-object alternation double-object constructions object symmetry |
| title | Pronominalization and clitic doubling in Syrian and Omani Arabic |
| title_full | Pronominalization and clitic doubling in Syrian and Omani Arabic |
| title_fullStr | Pronominalization and clitic doubling in Syrian and Omani Arabic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pronominalization and clitic doubling in Syrian and Omani Arabic |
| title_short | Pronominalization and clitic doubling in Syrian and Omani Arabic |
| title_sort | pronominalization and clitic doubling in syrian and omani arabic |
| topic | arabic argument structure clitic doubling clitics double-object alternation double-object constructions object symmetry |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2019-0053 |
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