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Economy and the Conflict with Uniformity in Syntactic Theory: The Case of Wh-Questions in Moroccan Arabic

Domaine:

natural language processing

Type de record:

paper
Créateur:
InaTao
Éditeur:
AL-
Hôte:
This paper investigates the relevance of some syntactic principles in Generative Grammar. Specifically, the objective is to highlight the conflict between economy and uniformity in syntactic theory. This conflict is illustrated by some elements of wh-questions. Using the Minimalist Program as a current syntactic ‘approach’, we take MA wh-elements as a case study to test the relationship between the two principles. We, first, survey the importance of economy in the language itself. Second, we bring examples of the conflict in wh-interrogatives, specifically in wh-subjects, wh-objects, yes-no questions, and the [Q] feature. The significance of the research is that, in the absence of empirical evidence for uniformity, economy should be prioritized.

Languages

Arabic, Moroccan Spoken

Licenses

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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