Reflection in the Arabic Language: A Comparative Linguistic Study

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  • Samir Jloulat Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh. Morocco Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17613/r3kw-c958

Keywords:

Syntactic Reflection, Morphological Reflection, Compliance, Unaccusative, Categorical Nature

Abstract

Reflection is a common linguistic phenomenon in many natural languages, and it is associated with some Middle structures, such as compliance in the morphological affix itself. Many problems regarding the objective structure, regarding whether the reflection is a unaccusative or unergative structure.

This paper seeks to monitor some of the distinctive structural and semantic properties of both reflection and compliance, by investing in the results of some modern generative linguistic research. It also aims to compare syntactic and morphological inflection in some natural languages, such as: French, English, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Turkish, with their counterparts in the Arabic language, it proposes a unaccusative analysis of the reflection based on a characteristic contrast between the reflection, which restricts its argument by the feature [+animate], and compliance, whose argument is designated by the Underspecification [+/-animate].

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Published

2024-08-09

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Vol. 3 No. 6 (2024): Issue 6 (January 2024)

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Reflection in the Arabic Language: A Comparative Linguistic Study. (2024). Arabic Journal for Translation Studies, 3(6), 9-23. https://doi.org/10.17613/r3kw-c958