Nurit Melnik
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nurit Melnik plays a role.
Articles
2020 Chapter 12. Agreement alternations in Modern Hebrew Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax, Berman, Ruth A. (ed.), pp. 421–464 | Chapter
Agreement is a type of relationship between two linguistic elements, often
characterized as an asymmetric relationship where one element, the
controller, determines the agreement features of another, the
target, within a particular syntactic domain. Although according to
prescriptive grammars,… read more
2018 Existentials and possessives in Modern Hebrew: Variation and change Studies in Language 42:2, pp. 389–417 | Article
This paper considers the relationship between synchronic variation and language change in the context of the existential and possessive constructions in Modern Hebrew, which exhibit a normative – colloquial alternation. The study examines usage patterns across age groups and time periods, as… read more