A Comparative Analysis of Preposition Stranding in Arabic Dialects

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" A Comparative Analysis of Preposition Stranding in Arabic Dialects "
Alkahtani, Samar Agbayani, Brian

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1109652
Doc. No	:	TLpq2474939605
Main Entry	:	Agbayani, Brian
	:	Alkahtani, Samar
Title & Author	:	A Comparative Analysis of Preposition Stranding in Arabic Dialects\ Alkahtani, SamarAgbayani, Brian
College	:	California State University, Fresno
Date	:	2021
student score	:	2021
Degree	:	M.A.
Page No	:	44
Abstract	:	Preposition stranding occurs with wh-movement in some languages. Modern Standard Arabic and Moroccan Arabic do not allow P-stranding in information questions or sluicing (Algryani 2010; Btoosh 2010; Algryani 2018). Works on other dialects of Arabic, such as Emirati Arabic (Leung 2014), Omani Arabic (Algryani 2019), and Iraqi Arabic (Albuarabi 2019), show that these dialects have P-stranding in sluicing (S/TP deletion following wh-movement; Ross 1967), but prevent P-stranding in wh-questions. These studies argue against the P-stranding generalization (PSG) of Merchant (2001), which asserts that a language should have P-stranding in wh-questions in order to have it in sluicing. The present thesis shows that Najdi Arabic (NA) has P-stranding in regular wh-questions and sluicing, in keeping with Merchant’s PSG, and furthermore it is consistent with Abels’ (2003) generalization for P-stranding languages in light of the Anti-locality Hypothesis. This thesis proposes that P-stranding in NA is licensed by a layer of functional structure within PP which I propose is lacking in other dialects that ban P-stranding in wh-questions.
Subject	:	Foreign language learning
	:	Language arts
	:	Linguistics
	:	Middle Eastern studies