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This paper discusses some minimal limitations of negative verbal and nominal sentences in Palestinean Arabic(PA) and standard Arabic (SA). The discontinuous-marker ma -sh and the single marker maa, both verbal negators, occur interchangeably in certain nominal contexts in our data rejectin the nominal negator mish. Based on the standard minimalist assumption (Chomsky 1995 and Rizzi 1990), the analysis reveals that these nonverbal categories which are not allowed by PA to occur by these two verbal negation particles, pattern with verbs with respect to their position in negation. The negated nominals in these contexts raise to satisfy some checking features and suggest that they pattern with verbs and share with them some predicational aspects in negation.
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