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Negatives Scoping Over Verbal Clauses in Some Arabic Varieties
Al Zahrani Mohammad, Alzahrani Salih
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2019.07.005
Taif University, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia
Both Classical Arabic (CA) and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) use the six negative particles: laa, maa, laysa, lam, lamma, and lan. Other Arabic varieties have only two negative particles. For instance, Hijazi Arabic (HA) uses laa and maa. This shows that the three varieties (CA, MSA, and HA) have the same underlying negatives, namely, laa and maa, but CA and MSA have a number of inflected forms of laa that HA does not have. The paper shows how HA uses the two negatives when scoping over verbal clauses while the other two varieties, i.e., CA and MSA, use all the six negatives. It is worthy of note here that HA is descendant from CA which has the six negatives. This suggests that HA must have lost the inflected variants of laa..
Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic, Arabic Varieties, Negation, Verbal Clauses, Scope
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