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In:Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. New York, 2012
Edited by Reem Khamis and Karen Froud
[Studies in Arabic Linguistics 2] 2014
► pp. 121–134

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Multiple agreement in Arabic

 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Published online: 30 October 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sal.2.08oua
This article analyzes multiple subject verb agreement in complex tense clauses in light of the Feature Inheritance (FI) approach (Chomsky 2008, 2013). After establishing that these complex tense clauses are bi-clausal with two TP projections and one CP, I argue that they present a challenge to FI according to which C is the locus of φ-features. I propose an analysis where I maintain that T is lexically specified for φ-features and show how this view can account for all the multiple agreement facts.
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