Love through Death in Modern Hebrew : A Syntactic Treatment Paperback / softback
by Z Malisdorf
Part of the Afroasiatic Linguistics series
Paperback / softback
Description
Investigating the verb la-mut 'to die' in Hebrew, one observes that, depending on the context, it has a secondary meaning ranging from 'want' to ' love'.
It will be argued here that the different readings of the verb stem from a regularity in Hebrew according to which some verbs may change their interpretation in a predictable way, depending on their syntactic environment; when followed by a NP, the verb is interpreted as a comment on a situation; where followed by S, no such comment is required.
The syntactic arguments for the analysis are based upon the operation of the Noun Phrase Constraint.
The semantic arguments assume that a sentence embedded in a NP is a presupposition of the entire sentence.
This analysis suggests that some verbs of perception and the like have as one of their semantic features [+/-comment] and some may add such a feature through the process of the semantic reading of the entire utterance .
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:16 pages
- Publisher:Undena Publications,U.S.
- Publication Date:31/12/1979
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- ISBN:9780890039175
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:16 pages
- Publisher:Undena Publications,U.S.
- Publication Date:31/12/1979
- Category:
- ISBN:9780890039175
