Why verbless sentences in Standard Arabic are verbless
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20258596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rashid Al-Balushi (Sultan Qaboos University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-30 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4131 • E-ISSN: 1710-1115 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008413100002188 |
| OpenAlex | W4243245314 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article aims to account for why verbless sentences in Standard Arabic lack a copular verb. In contrast to previous accounts which attribute the absence of the copula to some defect of present tense, I claim that a verbless sentence does not take a copula because its nominais do not need structural Case. The proposed analysis argues that structural Case is licensed by a “Verbal Case” feature on the relevant Case-checking heads, and assumes the Visibility Condition. The present analysis is based on a unique interaction between tense and word order, and on the observation that verbless sentences are finite clauses composed of a topic and a predicate, as well as on the observation that they do not involve licensing of structural Case
Copula (linguistics) · Dependent clause · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Predicate (mathematical logic) · Sentence · Verb · Word order · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,55 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |