This study analyzes three unmarked-marked verbal pairs that exist in the Neo-Aramaic dialects of Christian Barwar and Christian Urmi. Each pair is analyzed for the opposing forms’ formal and functional differences, with an emphasis on function. It is argued that despite the fact…
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The thesis is concerned with the correlation between aspects of verbs' meaning and aspects of verbs' syntax. This research domain is known as "The syntax-lexicon interface". Previous work has established a strong correlation between the two. In this thesis, I focus on some cases…
Although compound verbs play a significant role in the verbal category of the Turkic languages with their wide use and various meanings, no study provides either a formal criterion to distinguish compound verbs from other types of verbs and from verbal phrases, or offers a crite…
Scholars have given the study of Biblical Hebrew words, and especially verbs, a great amount of attention. Work on lexicons of Biblical Hebrew, theological dictionaries and various articles in journals give important details about individual verbs that appear in the Hebrew Bible…
This dissertation studies III-h verbs in Biblical Hebrew that may be rendered as either short or long in the Hebrew Masoretic text (wayyiqtol , yiqtol, Imperative). In chapter 1, a general examination of all 5,027 possible verbal forms is conducted and preliminary observations a…
This dissertation concerns the acquisition of mappings between lexical meaning and syntactic form in which arguments in the surface syntactic form may be left implicit, specifically focusing on indefinite implicit objects in English, e.g., John is eating (something). First, in a…
This dissertation discusses the work of Yehudah Hayyuj, a 10th century grammarian who worked in Spain and wrote three works on the grammar of Biblical Hebrew. Hayyuj wrote to address two issues. First, Biblical Hebrew had ceased being a spoken language, and as a consequence some…
The Verbs of Esther: A Discourse Analysis of a Post-Exilic Text seeks to describe the narrative main clause verbs, the quotation formula verbs, and the verbs in quotations found in the text of Esther. These verbs provide key information about the discourse structure of the text.…