Abstract This paper investigates marked and unmarked word order patterns in embedded clauses in Jordanian Arabic (JA), motivating a mono-clausal analysis of them. It shows that ‘topic’ in this Arabic dialect is not a unique category, nor susceptible to a single analysis, hence providing support for proposals that argue for topics typology. For instance, topics that express information that is newly introduced, newly changed or newly returned to, i.e. Aboutness Topic, are shown not to be licensed in JA embedded clauses. On the other hand, the study argues that topics that convey familiar information, i.e. Familiar Topic, are more constrained in embedded contexts than previously believed; they are not recursive. Such a state of affairs implies that there are no elements being assigned the same informational/communicative value in the left periphery of JA embedded clauses.

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约旦阿拉伯语中嵌入字序的制图方法

摘要本文研究了约旦阿拉伯语（JA）嵌入子句中带标记和无标记的单词顺序模式，以期对其进行单句分析。它表明，该阿拉伯语方言中的“主题”不是唯一的类别，也不容易进行单一分析，因此为主张主题类型的提议提供了支持。例如，表示新引入，新更改或新返回的信息的主题（即“关于主题”）显示为未在JA嵌入子句中获得许可。另一方面，该研究认为，传达熟悉信息的主题（即“熟悉的主题”）在嵌入上下文中的约束比以前认为的要多。它们不是递归的。