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

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Looking at the grammars of Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic, Shlonsky examines clausal architecture and verb movement and the role of agreement in natural language, using Chomsky's Government and Binding approach.

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• Authors: Ur Shlonsky, Ur (Lecturer in the Department of Genera Shlonsky, Ur (Lecturer in the Department of General Linguistics Shlonsky, Shlonsky Ur
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.1996
• EAN: 9780195108668
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510866-8
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford Studies in Comparative; Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Arabic, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Hebrew