ABSTRACT
In Cinque, author suggests that in addition to the left-right asymmetries which Kayne discusses, another could be seen to follow elegantly from antisymmetry: that embodied in Greenberg's Universal 20. One of the programmatic goals of Kayne's antisymmetry theory is that of accounting for the many left-right asymmetries found in natural languages. The author examines certain generalizations presented in a recent analysis of Standard Arabic DPs, suggesting that in that language, differently from the received opinion, DPs involve successive internal XP-raisings. Evidence that XP-raising rather than N-raising to the left of the genitive DP is involved in the Construct State in Arabic comes from the possibility of coordinating two head-nouns. Fassi Fehri shows that Standard Arabic conforms to Greenberg's universal, in that it is N A Num Dem, as well as Dem N A Num and Dem Num N A, where the obligatory post-nominal APs are themselves in an order which is the mirror image of the English order.
