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A cartographic approach to embedded word order in Jordanian Arabic

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Abstract

This paper investigates marked and unmarked word order patterns in embedded clauses in Jordanian Arabic (JA), motivating a mono-clausal analysis of them. It shows that ‘topic’ in this Arabic dialect is not a unique category, nor susceptible to a single analysis, hence providing support for proposals that argue for topics typology. For instance, topics that express information that is newly introduced, newly changed or newly returned to, i.e. Aboutness Topic, are shown not to be licensed in JA embedded clauses. On the other hand, the study argues that topics that convey familiar information, i.e. Familiar Topic, are more constrained in embedded contexts than previously believed; they are not recursive. Such a state of affairs implies that there are no elements being assigned the same informational/communicative value in the left periphery of JA embedded clauses.

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to thank Olga Fischer, the editor of Folia Linguistica, Sune Gregersen (editorial assistant), and two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and criticism that helped to improve the content of this paper. Additionally, the author would like to thank the audience at the 2018 SNU International Conference on Linguistics (Seoul National University, Korea) for their useful input.

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