Resumen de A Minimalist Approach to Verb Movement in Standard Arabic

Mohammed Rahhali, El Hassan Souâli

• This article addresses the issue of overt and covert V-movement in Standard Arabic within the minimalist framework. We will demonstrate that overt steps of this process do not go beyond Agrs, the only exception being positive imperatives, where C is also affected. This entails that VSO order in VSO languages such as Standard Arabic is not an outcome of overt V-to-C, as sometimes claimed in the literature. As for covert V-movement, we will focus especially on its application from Agrs to Mood, and show that in this case it may skip an intervening negative head not selecting a MoodP.