This dissertation examines a set of phenomena in Jordanian Arabic (JA) related to the subject and its position, providing an analysis for each within the assumptions of generative grammar, particularly those related to the provocative syntax model (Branigan 2010), and functional…
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Richards (2006, 2010) suggests that wh-movement is prosodically driven. Based on the position of the Comp(lementizer) and the marking of prosodic phrase edges, he claims that if Comp is on one side and the language marks the opposite side of prosodic phrases, then the wh-phrase …
This thesis investigates the structure of DPs in Jordanian Arabic (JA) focusing on Nominal Ellipsis (NE). Cross-linguistically, research on NE has produced a number of perspectives on the mechanisms involved in the licensing of NE. I argue that most of the mainstream approaches …
Acoustic and perceptual correlates of emphasis, a secondary articulation in the posterior vocal tract, in Urban Jordanian Arabic were studied. CVC monosyllables and CV.CVC bisyllables with emphatic and plain target consonants in word-initial, word-medial and word-final positions…
Previous research on finiteness has been dominated by the studies in tensed languages, e.g. English. Consequently, finiteness has been identified with tense. The traditional definition influences the morphological, semantic, and syntactic characterization of finiteness which has…
Evidentiality is commonly concerned with two basic notions: evidence type and the speaker's commitment towards the truth of the proposition expressed (Chafe and Nichols 1986). Throughout a detailed study of the morphosyntax and semantics of deverbal agentives (DAs), this dissert…
This study investigates the licensing conditions on Negative Sensitive Items (NSIs) in Jordanian Arabic (JA). JA exhibits both types of NSIs that are discussed in the literature: Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) and Negative Concord Items (NCIs). Although these two sets of items s…
A great attention is being directed toward improving special education services for children and adults with autism in Jordan. Among the different types of special education services comes the assessment and diagnostic evaluation process that helps professionals assess and diagn…
The present study is intended to investigate selected topics in the phonology of Jordanian Arabic (JA) within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT). The phonological phenomena under investigation can be accounted for by a set of constraints on metrical organizations like sylla…
This study is an investigation of the differences between the apology strategies used by Jordanians and Americans. The researcher has used two tests to get her data, the first designed by Sugimoto (1997) in her study of the differences of the apology strategies used in Japan and…