Themes In Arabic And Hebrew Syntax

Roots and Patterns The study of Hebrew verbs is based on a corpus of all Hebrew verb-creating roots, offering, for the first time, a survey of the full array of morpho-syntactic forms seen in the Hebrew verb. Based on Hebrew data, the book defends the status of the root as a lexical and phonological unit and argues that roots, rather than verbs or nouns, are the primitives of word formation.This book is simultaneously a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an in-depth empirical study of Hebrew.

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Thus, for example, alongside of reflexive se stesso 'himself which is the stressed form. Yet these properties are remarkably complex.Why should there be such differencces. And why should it be that if a verb behaves like arrivare and unlike tetefonare in one respect.

Since the inception of this theory, and virtually since the inception of generative grammar, anaphora has been a central topic of investigation.

3 THE LEXICON AND THEORIESOF WORD-FORMATION 357 3.

1 Personal nouns 403 3. 1 NONCE-FORMATIONS AND NEOLOGISMS 363 4.

The aim of this enterprise is to assemble together in one volume works on various syntactic aspects of Arabic and Hebrew, in the hope that it will spur further comparative work within the Semitic family at the level of richness achieved in other language families such as Germanic and Romance.

2 SUFFIXATION 403 3.

Moreover, apart from some notable exceptions, existing studies rarely take a systematic within-family comparative stance towards the phenomena they discuss, although cross-references between studies on Arabic and Hebrew are not uncommon. Obviously, we would ideally have preferred the volume to include papers on numerous other Semitic languages, including the languages of the Ethio­ Semitic branch as well as numerous spoken varieties of Arabic that have yet to be explored.The aim of this enterprise is to assemble together in one volume works on various syntactic aspects of Arabic and Hebrew, in the hope that it will spur further comparative work within the Semitic family at the level of richness achieved in other language families such as Germanic and Romance. Themes in Arabic and Hebrew Syntax Unfortunately, this was not possible due to circumstances beyond our control.