Ur Shlonsky

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ur Shlonsky plays a role.

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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Generative linguistics | Morphology | Syntax

Articles

On the assumption that a head c-selects the head of its sister phrase, the question I try to answer is how to implement selection of (indirect) questions and of subjunctive complements. The question is relevant to cartography because the head encoding Q (in interrogatives) and Mood-Subjunctive… read more
Shlonsky, Ur 2014 A note on labeling, Berber states 
and VSO orderThe Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli (eds.), pp. 349–360 | Article
Berber nouns appear in two syntactically-conditioned morphological forms. Subjects in VSO configurations, objects of (most) prepositions and clitic-doubled direct objects manifest the construct state, CS. Elsewhere, nouns appear in the free state, FS. I argue that CS is the form of a noun that… read more
Shlonsky, Ur 2000 Remarks on the Complementizer Layer of Standard ArabicResearch in Afroasiatic Grammar: Papers from the Third conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis, 1996, Lecarme, Jacqueline, Jean Lowenstamm and Ur Shlonsky (eds.), pp. 325–343 | Article