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Notes on Arabic PAPPI:
OV Word Order

[INCOMPLETE]

1. Theory

1.1 Examples

Taken from [pg30ff, Chapter 2: Word Order, Agreement and Case, Fassi Fehri (1993)] 
[39a] baqarat-an Saahad-tu
      cow-acc    saw-I
      A cow, I saw

[41] maa baqarat-an Saahad-tu
     not cow-acc    saw-I
      It is not a cow, I saw

2. Implementation

2.1 Parses

2.2 Scrambling

Added PS rules for scrambling to IP: 
rule overtONP -> [overtNP(NP)] st (C==acc;C==dat) if  NP has_feature morphC(C).

adjunction rule i2 -> [overtONP,i2].
Spec-IP not available due to AGR Criterion.

2.3 Extra Parses

How to block this?

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