الإشعاع
Volume 6, Numéro 2, Pages 211-231
2019-12-07

Negation In Arabic And Hebrew Within Generative Syntax

Authors : Moumni Jaouad .

Abstract

This paper investigates the syntactic properties of some negative markers in Arabic and Hebrew within Generative Syntax. It has been suggested that laysa in Arabic displays the same syntactic properties to that exists in Hebrew. However, differently to that of Hebrew, laysa assigns accusative case to nominal and adjectival predicate.

Keywords

Arabic, Hebrew, negation, tense, SVO, VSO.