Coordination of subject markers in Arabic and typed categorial logic

Abstract

In Standard Arabic, object markers and subject markers behave differently, although they share some properties. We are concerned here by their morphosyntactic status; whether they are arguments or agreement markers. The status of object markers is not an issue in itself, but the status of subject markers is one. The agreement asymmetries lead us to stipulate that, when subject markers are doubled by NPs whether these NPs are coordinated or not, they are agreement markers and not arguments. This analysis is implemented by means of an applicative combinatory categorical grammar (ACCG). © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.