Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers
Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Na'ama Pat-El and Stephen Mark Carey
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 200] 2018. vi, 280 pp.
Na'ama Pat-El
List of John Benjamins publications for which Na'ama Pat-El plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2018 Chapter 7. The diachrony of non-canonical subjects in Northwest Semitic Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects: The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers, Barðdal, Jóhanna, Na'ama Pat-El and Stephen Mark Carey (eds.), pp. 155–180 | Chapter
A syntactic pattern involving non-canonical subject marking in some Northwest-Semitic languages is fascinating for two reasons: (1) it cannot be reconstructed to the proto-language and it must have developed relatively late in the history of the family, which affords us an opportunity to observe… read more
2012 Third-person possessive suffixes as definite articles in Semitic Journal of Historical Linguistics 2:1, pp. 25–51 | Article
One of the best-known features of Neo-Ethio-Semitic languages is the use of the third-person possessive suffix as a definite article (Appleyard 2005, Rubin 2010). In this study we show that third-person possessive suffixes are also used as definite articles in other Semitic languages, although in… read more