The Syntactic Argumentation of the Word / le: š / in Jordanian Arabic

This study aims at investigating the syntactic status of word /le:š / in question formation Jordanian Arabic (JA). It is argued that this has two functions JA questions. The first which it works as interrogative operator, meaning ‘why’, moved to [Spec C] position one type wh-question. However, second role found other types questions, wh-questions and yes-no In these questions /le:š/ realized an complementiser formed within C giving force for question. To end, empirical evidence given discussed distinguish between representations especially ambiguous cases having different sharing same surface structure.