Abstract This paper discusses the possible scenarios of lexicalizing masculine gender in Arabic, which are made available by the nanosyntactic apparatus: the Superset Principle and Phrasal Spellout mechanism. In the paper, I show that gender is a separate functional projection like any other functional projections in the extended projection of the noun. In Arabic. Nouns are morphologically marked for gender distinctions. The feminine gender is marked either by –t and/or –aat on the noun, whereas masculine gender does not have a separate morphological marker. Thus, the paper provides two possible…
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