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Journal Article
Case Syncretism in Arabic Genitive Constructions
2024
Overview
The present paper proposes that the occurrence of identical genitive case marking in Standard Arabic (SA) in two contexts, namely the Construct State (CS) and Prepositional Phrase (PP) constructions, cannot be uniformly explained within syntax as they are assigned by different licensers: D in the former but P in the latter. Instead, this syntax-morphology mismatch should be addressed as a non-accidental syncretism in Case functions between the Possessive Genitive (i.e., possession, portative, attribution) and the Prepositional Genitive (e.g., location, source, goal, and instrumental). Based on the Distributed Morphology (DM) framework, I argue that the syncretism of Possessive (genitive) case with PP-related (genitive) cases is grounded on two theoretical assumptions: (a) their adjacency in the Case hierarchy, and (b) the applicability of Subset Principle of Vocabulary Insertion (VIs) within the post-syntactic morphology component. Specifically, (possessive) genitive Case, in contrast to other cases, is adjacent to PP-related cases and shares with them a positive value of Oblique [OBL: +]. The proposed account provides a thorough understanding of how the genitive case is distributed and behaves in SA. It successfully models syncretism in case functions and systematically addresses the interface issues between syntax and morphology observed in this context.
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جامعة حائل
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