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On the D-linked character of genitive interrogatives in Iraqi Arabic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2016

Laura Andreea Sterian
Laura Andreea Sterian*
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University of Edinburgh
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Abstract

This paper focuses on genitive interrogatives in Iraqi Arabic. I argue that these constructions are inherently D-linked (Discourse-Linked). Similarly to D-linked interrogatives, when genitive interrogatives appear in content questions in which both the resumptive strategy and the gap strategy are possible, the genitive interrogatives have a D-N structure when the gap strategy is employed and a D-φ-N structure when the resumptive strategy is employed. I then propose the following hypothesis: what defines D-linking is the presence of a domain restriction in the form of an overt noun.

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Résumé

Cet article a pour objet d'étudier les propositions interrogatives génitives en arabe iraquien. Je propose que ces constructions sont intrinsèquement D-linked (liées au discours). Selon le modèle des propositions interrogatives D-linked, lorsque les interrogatives genitives apparaissent dans des questions partielles dans lesquelles la stratégic non-résomptive et la strategic non-resomptive sont possibles, les interrogatives génitives sont caractérisées par une structure D-N si la strategic non-resomptive est employee mais par une structure D-φ-N si la stratégic resomptive est utilisee. Je propose alors l'hypothese selon laquelle c'est la presence d'une restriction de domaine sous la forme d'un nom visible qui définit la notion de D-linking.

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resumptionwh-movementD-linkingpronounscliticsrésomptiondéplacement-quD-linkingpronomsclitiques
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , July 2014 , pp. 201 - 234
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association. 2015

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