Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabic: An Essay in Comparative Semitic Syntax

Shlonsky, Ur

ISBN 10: 0195108663 / ISBN 13: 9780195108668

Published by OUP USA, 1997

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Paperback book in VG condition with some wear and rubbing, creasing to rear cover. Internally clean. xi, 289pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabic: An Essay in Comparative Semitic Syntax
• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195108663
• ISBN 13: 9780195108668
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Language
  • Linguistics

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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 certain aspects of Arabic clausal syntax. Through this 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 negations, verb movement, the nature of participles, and the gamut of positions available to clausal subjects in both languages.

About the Author

Ur Shlonsky is at University of Geneva.