Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabic: An Essay in Comparative Semitic Syntax (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) - Hardcover

Shlonsky, Ur

 
9780195108668: Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabic: An Essay in Comparative Semitic Syntax (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
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ISBN 10: 0195108663 ISBN 13: 9780195108668
Publisher: OUP USA, 1997

Synopsis

Shlonsky uses Chomsky's Government and Binding approach to examine clausal architecture and verb movement in Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic. He establishes a syntactic analysis of Hebrew and then extends that analysis to aspects of Arabic clausal syntax. Through the comparative lens of Hebrew, Shlonsky hopes to resolve a number of problems in Arabic syntax. His results generate some novel and important conclusions concerning the patterns of negation, verb movement, the nature of participles, and the gamut of positions available to clausal subjects in both languages.

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Ur Shlonsky teaches theoretical and Semitic syntax in the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Geneva.

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Publisher
OUP USA
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195108663
ISBN 13 
9780195108668
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
304

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