Abstract
This article argues that DP in Hail Arabic is dominated by a C-domain, with C-layers, adducing empirical evidence from C-particles that interact with DP-internal material, ʔektɪn marking Topic and zad marking Contrastive Focus. Analyzing Construct State phenomenon, it is shown that ʔektɪn exclusively marks the possessum N. The possessor DP is marked without a C-particle. The mechanism of topicalizing the possessor DP is via co-indexation with a clitic φ-agreeing with the possessor DP, spelled out on the possessum N, where the possessum N functions as Lexical Strategy. Lexical Strategy though is not an option to topicalize the possessum N; the possessor DP cannot host a clitic that φ-agrees with the possessum N. Merger of ʔektɪn is thus motivated on morphological grounds. HA syntax instantiates a C-layer above DP, materialized by ʔektɪn which φ-agrees with the possessum N, what I term Functional Strategy. Further, a C-layer encoding Contrastive Focus headed by C-particle zad and a C-layer headed by the Shifting Topic C-particle ʕad, both of which mark by movement of the CS-internal constituent, merge above DP and co-occur with ʔektɪn. Within the backbones of the Cartographic approach, this phenomenon provides evidence that the DP architecture in HA is ripe for Split-DP analysis.
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Acknowldgment
I would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers from Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics for their detailed valuable comments in the first and second rounds of reviewing this article, which have resulted in the paper being in its current contribution. I express my gratitude to Professor Holmberg for his insightful and remarkable suggestions and ideas and Professor Shlonsky for the consultation on Semitic CS-syntax that he welcomed at an earlier phase of writing the article. My sincere thanks and appreciation go to Professor Rizzi and Professor Cinque for the discussions we had about the Cartographic Approach at the Mapping Syntax 2022 Workshop at the University of Oxford. I wish to express my appreciation to the members of the Editorial Office of the journal of Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics for their continuous patience and guidance.
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