The prosody of the stanzaic poems called madrasê, written in Syriac by Ephrem of Nisibis in the fourth century, has long been studied by scholars. Until now, these studies have focused on meter, but this has left many questions unanswered. The present study examines the intercla…
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Richards (2006, 2010) suggests that wh-movement is prosodically driven. Based on the position of the Comp(lementizer) and the marking of prosodic phrase edges, he claims that if Comp is on one side and the language marks the opposite side of prosodic phrases, then the wh-phrase …
This dissertation examines the morphology and syntax of Balanta (Ganja dialect) in light of recent developments in syntactic theory. The picture that emerges is a highly unified one, with clauses and noun phrases having similar structures, and verbal morphology reflecting the hi…
The Santa (or Dongxiang) nationality is one of the fifty-five officially recognized national minorities of the People's Republic of China. Numbering over 370,000 according to the 1992 census (Grimes 1992), the Santa live in southern Gansu Province in the arid and mountainous Don…
The present research examines the morphological and syntactical features of forms used in the modal systems of the languages of the Northwest semitic corpus (Ugaritic, El-Amarna Canaanite, Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite, Edomite, Ammonite) from 1500–500 BCE. The study focuses of th…
In contrast to fruitful studies of resumptive pronouns (RP) in inflectional languages, few substantial studies have been done to explore the characteristics of RPs in Chinese. The thesis attempts to seek a unified theory for the occurrence of RPs. We classify RPs into three cate…
Greek word order variations are yet to be explained by consistently applied principles of linguistic theory. Many in the past have attempted to account for this phenomenon only to express disappointment in their own conclusions. Such findings surely establish Greek word order as…
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore major areas of Pashto syntax. It provides a unified account of agreement and clitics which in constructions such as relative clauses, represent core arguments. Agreement suffixes allow the coreferenced NP to be null in a sentence. O…
This dissertation explores the phenomenon of finiteness as Nominative case and its significance for the theory of syntax. It questions the relevance of Tense and Agreement as a Nominative Case licensing feature within the Minimalist Framework. It discusses the syntactic feature(…
This dissertation investigates the relation between the functional heads TP and AgrP and the use of overt and covert subjects across languages. This relation is first accounted for in Modern Hebrew, where both subject options are attested in different tense-person contexts. In a…
The thesis presents a thorough investigation of major aspects of pronominal syntax and interpretation. The main goal of the study is to motivate multiple dimensions of pronominal analysis, including morphosyntactic and structural properties, and to delineate their significance t…
This dissertation investigates the interaction between case and referentiality in syntax and the role of such an interaction on phrase structure. It proposes that the two conditions introduced independently in the literature for argumenthood, i.e., case-assignment for visibility…
This dissertation provides an analysis of verb-initial (V1) constructions in Modern Hebrew (MH). The two main foci of the analysis are the grammatical function of the postverbal NP in V1 and the licensing condition of the constructions. Subjects in MH are generally assumed to ap…
Causative constructions, as found in many of the world's languages, are similar enough to invite a unified explanation and yet different enough to make such an explanation appear to be difficult. This study, realized within the framework of Relational Grammar, accounts for all t…
A long history of studies exists of how Hebrew and Aramaic influenced NT Greek. Many deal specifically with the Semitic background to the Fourth Gospel. These are flawed, however, by (1) a lack of precision in selection of Greek and Semitic sources used for comparative purposes,…
Syntax of Hungarian vol 2
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These books aim to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language.
