Themes in Arabic and Hebrew Syntax

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Jamal Ouhalla, Ur Shlonsky

   Pages 1-43

3. Postverbal Subjects in Arabic and the Theory of Agreement

   • Wayne Harbert, Maher Bahloul

   Pages 45-70

4. Agreement, Clitics and Focus in Egyptian Arabic

   • Eloise Jelinek

   Pages 71-105

5. Cognate Objects in Modern and Biblical Hebrew

   • Asya Pereltsvaig

   Pages 107-136

6. Constituent Questions in Palestinian Arabic

   • Ur Shlonsky

   Pages 137-159

7. Adjectival Constructs and Inalienable Constructions

   • Tal Siloni

   Pages 161-187

8. Nominal Tough-Constructions

   • Miriam Engelhardt

   Pages 189-215

9. Gapping and VP-Deletion in Moroccan Arabic

   • Ibtissam Kortobi

   Pages 217-240

10. Hebrew Lexical Causatives

    • Maya Arad

    Pages 241-266

11. The Manifestation of Genericity in the Tense Aspect System of Hebrew Nominal Sentences

    • Yael Greenberg

    Pages 267-298

12. The Structure and Logical Form of Negative Sentences in Arabic

    • Jamal Ouhalla

    Pages 299-320

13. Back Matter

    Pages 321-327

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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. Although a substantial amount of work on the syntax of Arabic and Hebrew already exists in various forms, volumes of the type we have attempted are still practically non-existent. 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. Unfortunately, this was not possible due to circumstances beyond our control. We very much hope that the existence of this volume will make more inclusive volumes on the syntax of the Semitic languages only a matter of time.

• Index
• Negation
• Syntax
• aspect
• grammar
• objects
• semantic
• semantics
• subject

• University College Dublin, Ireland

  Jamal Ouhalla

• University of Geneva, Switzerland

  Ur Shlonsky

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