Doubling unconditionals in Arabic
Studies in Arabic linguistics, pp. 137–157
Abstract
Abstract We discuss wh-based unconditionals in Arabic (‘wherever she went, she was followed by photographers’), with special attention paid to the so-called doubling unconditionals in whose antecedents the predicate/clause is reduplicated (lit. ‘wher(ever) she went she went, she was followed by photographers’). We propose that the doubling unconditionals can be treated on a par with canonical unconditionals once one recognizes that the wh-introduced structure within the antecedent (‘wher(ever) she went’) is a focused free relative. We discuss the benefits, problems, and various open issues of this analysis. The paper constitutes the first in-depth discussion of the syntax and semantics of wh-based unconditionals in Arabic, drawing evidence primarily from Syrian Arabic.
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Charles University
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Charles University
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Ouras Aljani Aachen
Leiden University · Nantes Université · Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes
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LLING/Nantes Université
LUCL/Leiden University
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