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

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Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabic: An Essay in Comparative Semitic Syntax - Shlonsky, Ur
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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 ...

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Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabic: An Essay in Comparative Semitic Syntax 1997, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195108675

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Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabic: An Essay in Comparative Semitic Syntax 1997, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195108668

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