Themes in Arabic and Hebrew Syntax
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
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Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory VOLUME 53 Managing Editors
Liliane Haegeman, University of Lille Joan Maling, Brandeis University James McCloskey, University of California, Santa Cruz Editorial Board
Carol Georgopoulos, University of Utah Guglielmo Cinque, University of Venice Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University Michael Kenstowicz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hilda Koopman, University of California, Los Angeles Howard Lasnik, University of Connecticut at Storrs Alec Marantz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology John J. McCarthy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
THEMES IN ARABIC AND HEBREW SYNTAX Edited by
JAMAL OUHALLA University College Dublin, [reland
and
URSHLONSKY University of Geneva, Switzerland
Springer-Science+Business Media, B. V.
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ISBN 978-1-4020-0537-4 ISBN 978-94-010-0351-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-0351-3
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TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Contributors ............................................................................................ vii Preface ............................................................................................................... ix Introduction Jamal Ouhalla & Ur Shlonsky ...................................................................... 1 Postverbal Subjects in Arabic and the Theory of Agreement Wayne Harbert & Maher Bahloul ............................................................... .45 Agreement, Clitics and Focus in Egyptian Arabic Eloise Jelinek ............................................................................................... 71 Cognate Objects in Modem and Biblical Hebrew Asya Pereltsvaig ........................................................................................... 107 Constituent Questions in Palestinian Arabic Ur Shlonsky .................................................................................................. 137 Adjectival Constructs and Inalienable Constructions Tal Siloni ...................................................................................................... 161 Nominal Tough-Constructions Miriam Engelhardt ....................................................................................... 189 Gapping and VP-Deletion in Moroccan Arabic Ibtissam Kortobi .....................................................
