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Syntacticians generally focus on prose texts of a language when studying word order rather than examining poetry. The general consensus is that the stylization of poetry exercises too great an influence on the text to allow for regular word order. In their study of pragmatics, p…

This dissertation investigates the variable use of the object preposition 'et in Biblical Hebrew as an example of Differential Object Marking. Two categories of variation were examined. Asymmetric case alternations involve the variation between overt marking of the direct object…

The biblical Hebrew D stem (piel) seems to be inconsistent from verb to verb, both in its meaning and in its relationship to the G stem (qal). For example, the D stem has a higher valency than the G stem for some verbs (e.g., [special characters omittted] G ‘to be holy’, D ‘to m…

The research presented in this dissertation adopts an empirical Saussurean structuralist approach to elucidating the true meaning of the verb patterns characterised formally by vowel lengthening in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The verbal system as a whole is examined in order t…

This study seeks to describe transitivity as a basic image that is shared by humans qua humans, not simply as an inflectional phenomenon that involves the structure of a particular language. As an image, transitivity is studied in relation to other linguistic and non-linguistic …