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Themes in Arabic and Hebrew Syntax

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Jamal Ouhalla

    1. University College Dublin, Ireland

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  2. Ur Shlonsky

    1. University of Geneva, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 53)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University College Dublin, Ireland

    Jamal Ouhalla

  • University of Geneva, Switzerland

    Ur Shlonsky

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