Peter Hallman
List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter Hallman plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 2212-8042
2025 Chapter 5. A- and A′-dependencies in Standard Arabic: Evidence from comparatives Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXV: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Washington, D.C., 2022, Alqassas, Ahmad (ed.), pp. 110–136 | Chapter
This chapter investigates phrasal and clausal comparatives in Standard Arabic and draws inferences about structural conditions on both covert A′-movement and case assignment, a kind of A-dependency. It finds that in comparative constructions, subjects may undergo covert A′-movement, as can, more… read more
2023 Equative degree quantification in Damascene Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, 2020, Azaz, Mahmoud (ed.), pp. 185–210 | Chapter
In this paper, I document a degree-equative construction in contemporary Syrian Arabic. This construction is headed by the noun ʔadd meaning ‘size’ or ‘extent’, but I demonstrate extensive parallels in distribution between ʔadd and the comparative phrase aktar min ‘more than’. These parallels… read more
2017 Chapter 6. Participles in Syrian Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIX: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2015, Ouali, Hamid (ed.), pp. 153–180 | Chapter
This paper explores the distribution and interpretation of active and passive participles in contemporary Syrian Arabic. The fact that Syrian Arabic participles license objective Case suggests they are ‘verbal’ participles, i.e. verbs ‘disguised’ as adjectives. However, a detailed investigation… read more
2002 12. Passive in Arabic and English Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Maria D. Voeikova (eds.), pp. 149–160 | Chapter
1999 On Locality and Discontinuity: Agreement as Across the Board Movement Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Benmamoun, Elabbas (ed.), pp. 45–84 | Article
1997 Reiterative syntax Clitics, Pronouns and Movement, Black, James R. and Virginia Motapanyane (eds.), pp. 87–132 | Article