Adil Mrhar

Tense in Standard Arabic: A Minimalist Account of Morphological Realization and Feature Checking

This paper investigates the morphological realization of tense and the syntactic checking of the tense feature in Standard Arabic (SA). The empirical point of departure is a distribution puzzle: SA possesses only two verbal forms, the perfective and the imperfective, yet expresses three temporal distinctions. A substan...