Syntactic and Semantic Variation in Copular Sentences: Insights from Classical Hebrew
Daniel J. Wilson
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 261] 2020. xvi, 159 pp.
Daniel J. Wilson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Daniel J. Wilson plays a role.
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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Morphology | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 The case for broader copulas: Evidence from Spanish, Tsez, and more Copulas in Spanish and Beyond, Gumiel-Molina, Silvia and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (eds.), pp. 389–410 | Article
Discovering, comparing, and contrasting natural kinds is critical for scientific progress. It should be the goal of linguistic inquiry to seek out natural kinds within and between languages. Unfortunately, the most common definition of a copula is consistently inadequate for categorizing and… read more
2020 The thetic/categorical distinction as difference in common ground update: With application to Biblical Hebrew Thetics and Categoricals, Abraham, Werner, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa (eds.), pp. 311–334 | Chapter
The distinction between thetics and categoricals in natural language has been observed in more and more languages recently. The theoretical discussion about the thetic/categorical distinction has also become increasingly relevant. This article presents a few challenges to an… read more