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In this thesis, I investigate constructions involving adjunction in Arabic within the theory of Principles and Parameters as synthesized in Chomsky (1981) and further developed in subsequent work. I propose that the direction of Case-marking for all lexical and non-lexical categ…

This is a corpus-based study aimed at determining the nature of alternation between the accusative (ACC) case marking versus non-marking of the direct objects (DO) in Turkish. The analysis of the METU Turkish corpus (Say et al. 2002) and a number of news items taken from the onl…