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Focus and Exceptional Case Marking in Causative Constructions in Standard Arabic Khadija Farkad; Jamaa Ouchouid
Lingua : Journal of Linguistics and Language Vol. 3 No. 4 (2025): December 2025
Publisher : Indonesian Scientific Publication

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61978/lingua.v3i4.1103

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This paper examines the syntactic behavior of causative constructions in Arabic, focusing on the unresolved issue of thematic role and case assignment due to the bi-clausal structure of these constructions. The central research question revolves around the structural position of the causee in Arabic causatives. While prior studies have broadly described causatives in Arabic, they have not sufficiently addressed the syntactic mechanisms underlying the positioning and licensing of the causee within a minimalist framework. This paper offers a novel analysis, grounded in native speaker judgments and syntactic diagnostics, revealing that the causee occupies a contrastive focus position. The findings show that while the thematic role of the causee is assigned by the embedded verb, its case is exceptionally marked by the matrix verb. The causee occupies a contrastive focus position that can host clitic-left dislocated (CLLD) DPs. The dislocated DP resumes a clitic rather than leaving a gap. However, unlike similar positions in matrix clauses, this position does not permit DP stacking. These results indicate that focus positions in Arabic are more structurally diverse than previously thought, with important implications for our understanding of information structure and case assignment in bi-clausal constructions.
Distributivity as a Bridge Between Verb and Noun Domains in Standard Arabic Khadija Farkad; Ouchouid, Jamaa
Lingua : Journal of Linguistics and Language Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026): March 2026
Publisher : Indonesian Scientific Publication

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61978/lingua.v4i1.1447

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The interactions between the verbal and nominal domains exhibit recurrent structural patterns that make it possible to establish systematic correlations across categories. Events are mapped onto temporal intervals by means of a trace function, while their participants are integrated into the event structure through thematic-role assignment. Making these mappings explicit allows the analysis to constrain the space of possible interpretations, ruling out unattested outcomes while preserving the compositional derivation of complex predicates. The empirical investigation is based on six morphologically related verb forms in Standard Arabic, organized into three pairs that share the same lexical root but differ in their morphological realization, thereby enabling a controlled comparison in which lexical content is held constant and only morphosyntactic variation is tested. Methodologically, the study combines aspectual diagnostics, such as compatibility with temporal adverbials and the distinction between cumulative and quantized readings, with syntactic tests on argument realization, in order to determine how morphological variation affects both argument structure and event composition. The results show, first, that telicity does not systematically correlate with the definiteness or boundedness of the internal argument; second, that alternations within each morphological pair allow identical nominal complements to yield both telic and atelic readings; and third, that distributive interpretations consistently shift event structure toward atelicity by preventing the formation of a single bounded event, even in the presence of quantized objects.
Co-Authors Jamaa Ouchouid Ouchouid, Jamaa