%0 Journal Article
%T The Syntactic Status of Arabic Clauses Introduced by £¿inna A Minimalist Study | Alotaibi | English Language and Literature Studies | CCSE
%A Mansour Alotaibi
%J English Language and Literature Studies
%D 2019
%I 
%R 10.5539/ells.v9n1p70
%X A Standard Arabic (SA) complementizer known as £¿inna poses a restriction on word orders in the clause it introduces and induces accusative Case-marking on the otherwise nominative preverbal NPs (Note1). Following Chomsky¡¯s (2001) account of the morphosyntax of Case, this paper argues that £¿inna is a Case assigner and thus it carries an uninterpretable Case feature that determines the value which it assigns to an unvalued Case feature concerning accessible goal within A-bar projection. The paper shows that this argument captures the asymmetrical word order between clauses introduced by £¿inna and those headed by null CPs.£¿
%U http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ells/article/view/0/38360