Autore
Abu Helal, Abdel-Rahman

Titolo
On gender and number agreement in dual quantifiers in Standard Arabic: a relativized probing approach
Periodico
Lingue e linguaggio
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 48 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 349 - Pagina finale: 361

In Standard Arabic (SA), the (dual) quantifier KILAA/KILTAA displays an interesting paradigm of gender and number agreement that is conditioned by semantic interpretation: while collective KILAA/KILTAA agrees in natural duality number and grammatical gender with its predicate, distributive KILAA/KILTAA reflects agreement in grammatical singularity number and grammatical gender with the predicate in question. This paper shows that a simplified minimalist analysis which utilizes the formal tools of "relativized probing" based on the minimally-constrained cyclic Agree operation best captures the paradigm in question.



SICI: 1720-9331(2025)48:2<349:OGANAI>2.0.ZU;2-H
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1418/118854
Testo completo alternativo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1418/118854

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