Ordinal numerals in Jordanian Arabic: A morphosyntactic investigation

IF 0.2 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.2478/topling-2023-0006
Mohammad Alhailawani
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Abstract The purpose of this study is to discuss the morphosyntax of ordinal numerals in Jordanian Arabic (JA). I show that ordinal numerals in JA do not belong to a uniform category and argue that they show different syntactic and morphological behaviours depending on their structural position inside the extended nominal projection. In particular, I argue that pre-nominal ordinals are QPs that can merge inside or outside the DP, similar to the quantifier kull (Shlonsky, 1991; Benmamoun, 1999). On the other hand, I show that post-nominal ordinals are adjectives that merge inside the extended nominal projection (Corbett, 2004; Fassi-Fehri, 2018), similar to adnominal adjectives in JA. The findings of this study show that ordinals might belong to distinct syntactic categories within the same language depending on their structural position.
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约旦阿拉伯语中的序数词:形态句法研究
摘要本研究旨在探讨约旦阿拉伯语中序数词的形态句法。我证明了JA中的序数词不属于一个统一的范畴,并认为它们在扩展名词投射中的结构位置不同,表现出不同的句法和形态行为。特别是,我认为名词前序数是可以在DP内部或外部合并的QP,类似于量词kull(Shlonsky,1991;Benmamoun,1999)。另一方面,我发现后名词序数是在扩展名词投射内合并的形容词(Corbett,2004;Fassi-Fehri,2018),类似于JA中的附加名词形容词。研究结果表明,在同一语言中,序数根据其结构位置可能属于不同的句法类别。
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Topics in Linguistics
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