Abstract
Arguments will be presented here in support of an analysis of indicative sentences in Egyptian Arabic that recognizes a sentential constituent that we may label ‘AUX’.1 Steele has provided a language independent definition of AUX as follows:
Given a set of language internal analyses, in terms of constituents, those constituents which may contain only a specified (i.e., fixed and small) set of elements, crucially containing elements marking tense and/or modality, will be identified as non-distinct (Steele et al., 1981, Chap. 2.).
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Jelinek, E. (1983). Person-Subject Marking in AUX in Egyptian Arabic. In: Heny, F., Richards, B. (eds) Linguistic Categories: Auxiliaries and Related Puzzles. Synthese Language Library, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6989-6_2
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