Expressing Path Information in Languages: A Unified Syntactic Account | ||||
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| Volume 53, Issue 7 - Serial Number 2, April 2025, Page 350-390 PDF (1.28 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/aafu.2025.379173.1906 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Mustafa Ahmed Al-huamri  
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| Department of Languages and Translation, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The paper examines the applicability of Leonard Talmy’s typological division of languages into the so-called verb-framed languages (henceforth VLs) and satellite-framed languages (henceforth SLs. It demonstrates that there is no clear-cut distinction in languages regarding the expression of path: the presence of one type does not preclude the absence of the other. For instance, Spanish, Standard Arabic, French, and Italian supposedly belonging to a VL type, make use of satellites to articulate the path outside the verb, while English, German, Dutch, and Russian supposedly belonging to an SL type, may incorporate the path within the verb. The paper proposes that the micro-variation in terms of expressing path can be syntactically derived via an extended version of Feature Inheritance (FI), where the phase head v* transmits its probing features to V or P. Via the FI mechanism, two distinct relations [v*-ViPath] and [v*-PiPath] account for variation between VL and SL frames, respectively, combined with P-to-V movement in the derivation of the latter, but not in the former. The proposed FI-based v*-V/P model not only accounts for the distributional behavior s of path encoding across languages, but also deepens our understanding of how typological variation should be approached in the theory of generative grammar. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Feature Inheritance; variation; path expression; probing features; head movement | ||||
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