Case checking by morphological causatives in Standard Arabic : A minimalist approach

Form II causatives in Standard Arabic appear with double objects in two syntactic contexts: one in which both objects are in the accusative case, the other in which the first is accusative and the second genitive (as the complement of li). These differences in case-marking follow from two assumptions: (i) sentences with causative verbs are underlyingly biclausal; (ii) double accusatives share structural similarities with Exceptional Case-Marking constructions, and accusative-genitives with syntactic passives. These properties follow from minimalist assumptions about phrase structure, movement, and derivational economy as expounded in Chomsky (1993, 1995a, b) and Collins (1997)