Abstract
This paper explores the morphosyntactic
properties of the sentential negation in Rural Palestinian Arabic (RPA) and how
it is related to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) morphosyntax. The study shows
that the negative markers ma: and – iš are used to negate perfective and
imperfective verbs, while muš is a head element where the negative precedes
non-verbal predicates such as adjectives, prepositional phrases (PP) and
participles. The main predicate in negative phrase does not need the noun
phrase (NP) to raise to T if there is no need to merge with the negative
element. The study also investigates the differences between RPA and Urban
Palestinian Arabic (UPA). The main difference is that the use of –iš as a post
verbal clitic in both perfective and imperfective tense is more common in the
Rural dialect.
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