ABSTRACT
The chief objective of the present work is to give a syntactic analysis of the Arabic language based on the transformational generative model. For this purpose, I have selected data from three major types of Arabic sentences: the coordinate, the negative, and the interrogative, and tried to give a generative account of them. The subject of investigation is in essence modern Literary Arabic as opposed to classical or colloquial Arabic. However, the boundaries between these varieties of the language are often difficult to draw, since there is no specific point in history denoting the cessation of the classical and the start of the modern form of the language. To avoid this rather controversial issue, I have chosen data from the language that is likely to be used by modern writers, journalists, and in radio broadcasts rather than the language of the Holy Quran or classical poetry.
