Jamal Ouhalla
Biographic Data
| ID | 781955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamal Ouhalla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamal |
| FAMILY NAME | Ouhalla |
| SIGNATURE | OUHALLA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Root-Extraction
This article examines the verb ‘need’ in Arabic in light of the decompositional approach proposed in Harves and Kayne (2012) which assumes a Hale and Keyser (1993, 2002)-style analysis whereby transitive ‘need’ derives by incorporation of the noun ‘need’ into a silent possessive verb HAVE . The properties of Arabic ‘need’ are shown to favour the alternative Marantz (1998)-style analysis, whereby the verb ‘need’ and its nominal variant both derive…
The Origins of Andalusi-Moroccan Arabic and the Role of Diglossia
This article aims to make a contribution to the debate concerning the origins of the Moroccan Arabic genitive preposition d(yal) and its implications for the emergence of Moroccan Arabic recently reignited in Heath (2015). The latter sources the preposition to a combination of Late Latin allative dē and pronouns in the context of a language shift that took place in Roman cities in the Maghreb. This hypothesis is shown to be inconsistent with both…
Wh-Cliticisation
This article explores a phenomenon found in Berber whereby the extraction of dative arguments (of verbs, nouns and prepositions) gives rise to two occurrences of wh. One is a wh-word located in Spec,C and the other a wh-clitic in the dative form located in C (wh-clitic-doubling). Close examination reveals that the wh-word in Spec,C functions as an operator base-generated in its scope position and the dative wh-clitic in C provides it with a deriv…
Preposition-possessum agreement and predication in possessive noun phrases
This article discusses two relatively novel properties of possessive noun phrases in Arabic and explores their implications for existing analyses. First, in some dialects of Moroccan Arabic the genitive preposition shows agreement in number and gender with the possessum to its left in analytic (Free State) noun phrases. Preposition-possessum agreement appears to parallel verb-subject agreement and is to all intent and purposes an instance of pred…
Variation and Change in Possessive noun Phrases
The main objective of this article is to outline an account of the evolution of the analytic (Free State) type of possessive noun phrases in Spanish Arabic and the loss of the synthetic (Construct State) type in Shamaliya Arabic, two relatively unknown varieties that are historically related. Possessive noun phrases can vary at the level of Syntax, PF or the Lexicon. Variation at the level of Syntax yields the distinction between the synthetic ty…
Agreement Features, Agreement and Antiagreement
Semitic Relatives
This article evaluates a promotion-based analysis for Semitic relatives along the lines of Kayne 1994 and compares it with an alternative analysis that does not make use of promotion but shares with Kayne's analysis an antisymmetric view of phrase structure. The alternative analysis is based on establishing a parametric distinction relating to categorial identity of the relative clause such that it is a CP in some languages and a DP in others. Th…
Themes in Arabic and Hebrew Syntax
Subject-extraction, negation and the antiagreement effect
Learning the impossible
Sentential Negation, Relativised Minimality and the Aspectual Status of Auxiliaries
On incorporation
Clitic movement and the ECP
Subject-extraction, negation and the antiagreement effect
Semitic Relatives
This article evaluates a promotion-based analysis for Semitic relatives along the lines of Kayne 1994 and compares it with an alternative analysis that does not make use of promotion but shares with Kayne's analysis an antisymmetric view of phrase structure. The alternative analysis is based on establishing a parametric distinction relating to categorial identity of the relative clause such that it is a CP in some languages and a DP in others. Th…
Learning the impossible
Clitic movement and the ECP
Agreement Features, Agreement and Antiagreement
On incorporation
Clitic movement and the ECP
Sentential Negation, Relativised Minimality and the Aspectual Status of Auxiliaries
On incorporation
Subject-extraction, negation and the antiagreement effect
Learning the impossible
Themes in Arabic and Hebrew Syntax
Semitic Relatives
This article evaluates a promotion-based analysis for Semitic relatives along the lines of Kayne 1994 and compares it with an alternative analysis that does not make use of promotion but shares with Kayne's analysis an antisymmetric view of phrase structure. The alternative analysis is based on establishing a parametric distinction relating to categorial identity of the relative clause such that it is a CP in some languages and a DP in others. Th…
Agreement Features, Agreement and Antiagreement
Variation and Change in Possessive noun Phrases
The main objective of this article is to outline an account of the evolution of the analytic (Free State) type of possessive noun phrases in Spanish Arabic and the loss of the synthetic (Construct State) type in Shamaliya Arabic, two relatively unknown varieties that are historically related. Possessive noun phrases can vary at the level of Syntax, PF or the Lexicon. Variation at the level of Syntax yields the distinction between the synthetic ty…
Preposition-possessum agreement and predication in possessive noun phrases
This article discusses two relatively novel properties of possessive noun phrases in Arabic and explores their implications for existing analyses. First, in some dialects of Moroccan Arabic the genitive preposition shows agreement in number and gender with the possessum to its left in analytic (Free State) noun phrases. Preposition-possessum agreement appears to parallel verb-subject agreement and is to all intent and purposes an instance of pred…
The Origins of Andalusi-Moroccan Arabic and the Role of Diglossia
This article aims to make a contribution to the debate concerning the origins of the Moroccan Arabic genitive preposition d(yal) and its implications for the emergence of Moroccan Arabic recently reignited in Heath (2015). The latter sources the preposition to a combination of Late Latin allative dē and pronouns in the context of a language shift that took place in Roman cities in the Maghreb. This hypothesis is shown to be inconsistent with both…
Wh-Cliticisation
This article explores a phenomenon found in Berber whereby the extraction of dative arguments (of verbs, nouns and prepositions) gives rise to two occurrences of wh. One is a wh-word located in Spec,C and the other a wh-clitic in the dative form located in C (wh-clitic-doubling). Close examination reveals that the wh-word in Spec,C functions as an operator base-generated in its scope position and the dative wh-clitic in C provides it with a deriv…
Root-Extraction
This article examines the verb ‘need’ in Arabic in light of the decompositional approach proposed in Harves and Kayne (2012) which assumes a Hale and Keyser (1993, 2002)-style analysis whereby transitive ‘need’ derives by incorporation of the noun ‘need’ into a silent possessive verb HAVE . The properties of Arabic ‘need’ are shown to favour the alternative Marantz (1998)-style analysis, whereby the verb ‘need’ and its nominal variant both derive…
Linguistics (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (9 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Noun (5 works) · Syntax (5 works) · History (4 works) · Natural language processing (4 works)