Active participles in Jordanian Arabic: Categorial classification, syntactic derivation, and tense
Al-RabaA B.I.M.
2021Brill Academic Publishers
Brills Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics
2021#13Issue 2380 - 422 pp.
This study examines the categorial status, syntactic derivation, and tense of active participles in an urban variety of Jordanian Arabic. It is shown that unlike in other Arabic varieties, active participles in Jordanian Arabic fall into three distinct categories (namely, nominal, adjectival, and verbal) with respect to their morphophonological, syntactic and semantic structures. Moreover, it is argued that active participles are not lexically underspecified or homophonous, but are rather derived distinctively in the syntax. This study also explores tense in active participle clauses. Verbless clauses with adjectival and nominal active participles as the only predicates solely project present tense; a past or future tense is available only if a copula is involved. In contrast, clauses with verbal active participles, which are morphologically unmarked for tense, are shown to license temporal adverbs of different time references. It is argued that such clauses project a covert agreement tense whose time frame is established by time adverbs.
Active participles , Categorial status , Jordanian Arabic , Syntactic derivation , Tense
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