Symmetry and asymmetry in the Hebrew copula construction
- The copula construction in Hebrew has received much attention in the linguistic literature. Nevertheless, one non-canonical variant has been largely neglected. In this variant the copula, flanked by two NPs, exhibits agreement with the post-copular NP, contrary to the canonical variant, where the agreement controller is the initial NP. This phenomenon challenges the notion of subject and its relation to agreement. The current corpus-based study investigates the word order and agreement patterns exhibited by the Hebrew copular constructions and shows that their distribution is largely motivated by information structure considerations. The proposed analysis accounts for the syntactic symmetry and semantic asymmetry between the two NPs.
| Author: | Nurit MelnikORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-729604 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2018.7 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1793 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications |
| Place of publication: | Stanford, CA |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2018/10/15 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | International Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (25 : 2018 : Tokio) |
| Release Date: | 2024/09/13 |
| GND Keyword: | Hebräisch; Inversion <Grammatik>; Kopula |
| Volume: | 25.2018 |
| Page Number: | 18 |
| First Page: | 108 |
| Last Page: | 126 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
