Obligatory and Optional Fronting in Arabic Comment
The fronting of the comment in Arabic can be obligatory in specific cases such as when the comment is an adverbial or a prepositional phrase, an interrogative particle, or when the topic has a possessive pronominal suffix. Optional fronting is used by Arabic speakers and writers to mark information structure, contrast, or focus within a sentence.
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The fronting of the Comment in Arabic The obligatory and the optional fronting
The Obligatory Fronting of the Comment There are four cases where the comment is fronted obligatorily in Arabic: 1. If the Comment is an adverbial or a prepositional phrase and the Topic is indefinite: .
2. If the Comment is an interrogative particle: 3. If the Topic has a possessive pronominal suffix that is anaphoric with the Comment: .
4. if the Comment is restricted by the exceptive particles BUT and only Ali is the clever one.
The optional fronting of the Comment Speakers and writers in Arabic use this syntactic strategy in order to mark information structure in a sentence or to mark contrast or focus. It is fronted to signal contrast, if someone says that the girl is in the house. .
