Analyzing Wh- movement in Modern standard Arabic According to Chomsky’s theory of movement

Abstract

The present study is an attempt to examine Chomsky’s theory of
movement and see if it is applicable in Arabic language. and also verbless
sentences distribution by exploring their syntactic comportment and
presenting two minimalist proposals to justify the motivating wh-movement
in such verbless sentences as well as checking their agreement features.
Although, the verbless sentence does not contain any overtly lexical copular
verb in the context of present tense in modern standard Arabic, but there
still an authorization of case and agreement features. Arabian verbless
investigations involve a vacancy in addition to discard copula Norm
hypothesis. This suggests depending on the minimalist syntax model by
(Chomsky, N., 1992a, 1995b); Arabic verbless statements should have no
verb as well as verb phrase, because of the two possibilities that inflected
through tense for representing the present tense explanation: one without a
verb another through a verb (copula).