Peter W. Culicover's scientific contributions

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... A questionnaire on grammaticality judgments is given to 10 native Sudanese Arabic speakers to attest their intuition about predicates using open-ended questions. As argued by Culicover (1997), the close examination of selected sentences and phrases that native speakers of a language judge to be possible, impossible, or marginal has proven to be the most productive methodology in the development of linguistic theory. This observational method provides the respondents the option of furnishing a wide range of answers as stated by Brown (2009), thus, reflecting their own understanding in relation to sentences Taha, M. & Sultan, F. / Southeastern Philippines Journal of Research and Development , Vol. 27, No. 1 (March 2022) 1-20 structure of unaccusative predicates in Sudanese Arabic. ...