Abstract
Benmamoun and Lorimor (2006) dispute the claim made in Ackema and Neeleman 2003 that certain agreement alternations in Standard Arabic, and various related phenomena, can successfully be analyzed in terms of postsyntactic spell-out rules that are sensitive to prosodic structure. In this reply, we argue that the data discussed by Benmamoun and Lorimor do not warrant their conclusion, and in fact provide further evidence in favor of our original analysis.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 75-96 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Linguistic Inquiry |
Volume | 43 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2012 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- agreement alternations
- Standard Arabic
- Dutch,
- prosodic domains
- pro drop