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Verb movement in Biblical Aramaic: bibliography
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Verb movement in Biblical Aramaic: word orders with ditransitive verbs
(University of the Free State, 2001)The word order of any sentence with a ditransitive verb will of necessity differ materially from word orders where the V is transitive or intransitive, due to the fact that the ditransitive verb has a twofold object. In ... -
Verb movement in Biblical Aramaic: Verb-Subject-Object and related word orders in BA
(University of the Free State, 2001)According the philologist Joseph Greenberg (1978:76) all languages may (superficially) be classified into six groups on the criterion of word order, viz S-V-O, S-O-V, V-S-O, V-O-S, OV-S and O-S-V. The grammatical relations ... -
Verb movement in Biblical Aramaic: Verb-Subject-Object and related word orders in BA
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Verb movement in Biblical Aramaic: Verb-Subject (V-S) and Subject- Verb (S-V) relations
(University of the Free State, 2001)This chapter will determine the way in which word order in sentences with intransitive V’s can be derived. In BA, sentences with intransitive V’s reveal V-S and S-V word order. Various classes of conjugation (Perfect, ... -
Verb movement in Biblical Aramaic: the Minimalist Programme as a general linguistic framework for verb movement
(University of the Free State, 2001)This chapter offers a survey of recent developments in the theory of sentence-structure within the Chomskyan generative framework. The emphasis is on the development of syntactic theory up to and including MP. MP is ... -
Verb movement in Biblical Aramaic: introduction
(University of the Free State, 2001)The activity in which you are engaged at this moment is reading and understanding an English sentence which you have never seen before and may well never see again. You may ask, how is it possible to understand a sentence ... -
Verb movement in Biblical Aramaic: summary of conclusions
(University of the Free State, 2001)The aim of this research was to prove within the limits of MP as expounded by Chomsky (1992), that V movement, in combination with the strength of the features of lexical heads, accounts adequately for the various word ...