Agr Feature and Small Pro in al-Tanaazu’ in Classical Arabic

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This paper deals with Case Theory, Deletion and Ɂiʕmaal [case assignment] as manifested in the syntactic construction of Ɂal-Tanaazu’ [case conflict]. The study examines the coordinate structures of Ɂal-Tanaazu’. It proposes an alternative operation, namely, Agr feature valuation, that replaces pronominalization or Ɂiđmaar as assumed by CA grammarians, especially in Ɂal-Basra’s linguistic tradition. It offers a unifying approach to resolve the issue of Ɂiđmaar within the case study of Ɂal-Tanaazu’ in the light of Chomsky’s Minimalism (1995b). It deals with a very limited set of case assigners, namely, the mono-transitive predicate. This paper is organized as follows: section (1) introduces an overview of Ɂal-Tanaazu’ in CA data and Chomsky’s sub-theories that are required. Section (2) provides the basic assumptions of the leading figure of Ɂal-Basra school, i.e., Sibawayh. Section (3) displays the analysis of the deletion approach adopted by Sibawayh (765-796 A.D.), in conformity with the adjacency condition and the locality principle (Chomsky, 1981). Then, section (4) includes and represents the findings of this study.

 

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