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It argues that syntactic rules and merger-based derivations fail to explain both syntactic and semantic properties of irregular, frozen data. 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Al-Dobaian*\u003Cbr>Department of English and Literature, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia\u003Cbr>Corresponding Author: Abdullah S. Al-Dobaian, [E-mail: maliknabi@hotmail.com](E-mail: maliknabi@hotmail.com) |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| ARTICLE INFO | ABSTRACT\u003Cbr>The Arabic traditional grammar as well as Chomsky’s mainstream theory may not be able |\n| Article history |  |\n| Received: July 20, 2021 | to provide a good analysis of some fixed Arabic phrases. The challenge of such data directly |\n| Accepted: September 10, 2021 | stems from the fact that the general syntactic rules assumed by the two opposing theories |\n| Published: October 31, 2021 | cannot explain the syntactic and the semantic aspects of the fixed Arabic data. I argue that the |\n| Volume: 12 Issue: 5 | Construction Grammar provides an adequate account that does not rely on syntactic structure |\n| Advance access: October 2021 | alone, as assumed by the mainstream theory or the Arabic traditional grammar, but rather it links phonological, syntactic, and semantic information together in one basic construction by means of some correspondence rules. The Arabic data proves that there is a strong need for a linguistic |\n|  |  |\n| Conflicts of interest: None\u003Cbr>Funding: None | theory that takes into consideration all data of different range of productivity. |\n| Key words: |  |\n| Lexical Phrases,\u003Cbr>Regular Phrases, |  |\n| Construction Grammar, Syntax, |  |\n| Semantics |  |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nI discuss some Arabic data of irregular phrases that prove to be problematic cases for syntactic rules affecting phrases derived in syntax by means of merger. Such data tend to be empirically challenging data tobe explained by either the Arabic traditional syntactic theory or even Chomsky’s mainstream theory (1981; 2015) . More specifically, the syntactic rules may not account for these specific types of phrases because these phrases are syntactically different from the regular phrases. Moreover, some of these specific lexical phrases are associated with special meaning that cannot be determined by syntax.  \nIn the second section, I introduce the data. The third section explains how the Arabic traditional syntactic theory can account for the data and the problems of this analysis. Then it is shown that Chomsky’s mainstream grammar as represented by the Government and Binding (GB) (1981) orthe Minimalist theory (MP) (2015) is not able to account for these data due to reasons that we discuss. I that the data are lexical phrases in section four. I suggest that even though the modern mainstream syntactic tradition generally precludes such analysis, there are studies like Hale and Keyser (1993) that suggest that some syntactic structures may be indeed derived lexically. The fifth section provides a construction grammar as one viable theory that can provide a syntactic as  \nwell as semantic analysis of the data in section two. Finally, a conclusion summarizes the main points of the paper.  \nDATA  \nViolation of Regular Case Marking and Agreement Rules in Arabic  \nThe adjacency case marking  \nThe adjective xarib picks the case marking of the adjacent noun rather than the further noun it modifies:  \n(1) haaḏa ğuḥr-u ḍab-in xarib-in. (Ibn Hishaam, 2002, vol. 6, p. 660)  \nthis is hole.3sm-nom lizard.sm-gen ruined.sm-gen.  \nThis is a ruined lizard hole.  \nNon-default case marking:  \nIn some restricted sentences, the nominative case can be assigned to the subject while the object gets the nominative case. The examples are given in (2) (examples in (2) are taken from (as-Sayuuṭii 1992, vol.3, p. 8)):  \n(2) a. xaraqa aṯ-ṯawb-u al-mismaar-a.  \npenetrated.3sm the dress.3sm-nom the nail.3sm-acc The nail penetrated the dress.  \nPublished by Australian International Academic Centre PTY.LTD.  \nCopyright (c) the author(s). This is an open access article under CC BY license ([h","cbCaisynEiSf8mgm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisynEiSf8mgm","pdf",213236,"English","# Introduction\n## Data\n## Violation of Regular Case Marking and Agreement Rules in Arabic\n## The Arabic traditional syntactic theory and its problems\n## Government and Binding / Minimalist theory limits\n## Construction Grammar analysis\n# Conclusion","[{\"question\":\"Why do syntactic theories have difficulty with fixed Arabic phrases in this paper?\",\"answer\":\"Because the syntactic rules assumed by both Arabic traditional grammar and mainstream generative theories cannot account for the syntactic and semantic behavior of fixed, irregular phrases.\"},{\"question\":\"What type of data is introduced as challenging cases?\",\"answer\":\"Arabic irregular phrases where phrase structures and meaning do not follow regular syntactic rules, including cases related to case marking and agreement.\"},{\"question\":\"What solution does the paper propose to analyze the data?\",\"answer\":\"It proposes that Construction Grammar can provide an adequate account by linking phonological, syntactic, and semantic information through correspondence rules.\"}]","Advances in Language and Literary Studies - Volume 12 Issue 5 | PDF",1792029322,12]