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Subject-Verb Agreement in Standard Arabic: A Minimalist Approach
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The main concern of this paper is to investigate the phenomenon of subject-verb agreement in Standard Arabic (SA) within Chomsky's (1998, 1999, 2001) recent minimalist approach. In his approach, Chomsky claims that subject-verb agreement involves a relationship between a probe (P) and a local goal (G).He also maintains that syntactic operations proceed by phase. If this approach could provide a principled account of Subject-Verb agreement in SA, then this will lend empirical support for the
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