The research should discuss syntactic facts about Negation in standard Arabic. T
The research should discuss syntactic facts about Negation in standard Arabic. The. Arabic negation markers are: [maa / laa/ lan/lam/ laysa (agreement)/and ʁair] all of them are included in the attached articles.
(If you need Arabic data let me know, just write them in English and I will provide the Arabic equivalents with translation)
-Propose a descriiption based on English negation and the data you observe, it is not necessary to consult previous accounts (observations).
-Compare English and Standard Arabic side by side to show that Neg must appear in different positions, including syntactic tree diagrams.
– What is the source of the treatment of negation in English?
-What is the basic order in Standard Arabic?
-What is imperfective and perfective verbs in Arabic?
-What does it mean if a sentence is verbless in Arabic? Does it mean that there is a copula, but perhaps the copula is phonologically empty? [Why is it relevant what the phonological form of the copula is?] Do we have a convincing argument that the copula is absent when it is not overt?
-How can we explain that ‘laysa’ can agree in gender (and possibly other phi-features)? Propose an account in terms of features that agree or complex elements for both tense and phi-/gender-agreement. That should go beyond an observation of the facts.
-Does this show constituent (as opposed to clausal) negation? Show the structures in a sentence.
