Theoretical issues in the grammar of Semitic languages
By: edited by Hagit Borer and Youssef Aoun.
Contributors: Borer, Hagit.; Aoun, Joseph.
Series: MIT working papers in linguistics ;; v. 3
Publisher: Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Semitic languages -- Grammar.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Errata slip laid in.
Table of contents: title: A note on cyclic stress in Levantine Arabic / Michael Kenstowicz; title: Spirantization in Tigrinya / Barry Schein; title: The domain of weak cross-over restrictions / Youssef Aoun and Dominique Sportich; title: Vowel deletion, vowel reduction and Aramaic syllable structure / Susan D. Rothstein; title: Stress, pretonic strengthening, and syllabification in Tiberian Hebrew / John J. McCarthy; title: On the phonology of gutturals in Biblical Hebrew / Malke Rappaport; title: Comments on the pro-drop phenomena / Hagit Borer; title: Dative marking of the affected in modern Hebrew / Ruth A. Berman; title: Accentuation and metrical structure in Tiberian Hebrew / Bezalel Elan Dresher; title: Epenthesis and degenerate syllables in Cairene Arabic / Elisabeth Selkirk; title: On the development of the numeral 'one' as an indefinite marker / Talmi Givón.