Chapter published in:
Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and SyntaxEdited by Ruth A. Berman
[Studies in Language Companion Series 210] 2020
► pp. 507–538
Chapter 14Genitive (smixut) constructions in Modern Hebrew
Ruth A. Berman | Tel Aviv University
The chapter concerns the morpho-syntactic structure and usage-based properties
of MH constructions involving two nominal constituents, an initial head and following
modifier. Focus is on the three smixut ‘adjacency’ or ‘dependency’
constructions: (i) “construct-state” compounds in the form N^ N(P), where a caret indicates
the relation between an initial bound head N and its free-form modifier; (ii) free, analytic
N(P) šel (N)P constructions with the genitive marker šel
‘of’; and (iii) doubly marked N1pro2
šel N2 genitives. Usage-based analyses of alternations between
these three options for expressing possession and other genitive relations reveal
conflicting results, leading to the conclusion that text-type (genre, medium of expression,
level of usage, and communicative setting) plays a major role in choice of construction.
The chapter also considers two other binominal constructions – construct-state Adj^ Noun and
Noun + Denominal Adjective phrases – and concludes by noting more general properties of
Modern Hebrew reflected in current use of these constructions.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1Constructions analyzed
- 1.2Sources of data
- 2.Binominal N^ N(P) smixut genitive constructions
- 2.1Bound N^ N(P) constructions
- 2.1.1Morphological marking of head noun
- 2.1.2Syntactic constraints on N^ N constructions
- 2.1.2.1Constituents of N^ N construct state: Head nominal and modifying constructions
- 2.1.2.2Word-order constraints
- 2.1.3Stylistic and processing constraints
- 2.1.4Degree of lexicalization
- 2.1.5Semantics of head nouns in bound N^ N constructions
- 2.2Free analytical genitives
- 2.3Double-marked complex genitives
- 2.4Alternation between genitive constructions
- 2.1.2.1Constituents of N^ N construct state: Head nominal and modifying constructions
- 2.1Bound N^ N(P) constructions
- 3.Other binominal constructions
- 3.1Construct-state adjective + noun [ac]
- 3.2Head noun + denominal adjective (daj)
- 4.Concluding discussion
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Notes -
References
Published online: 18 March 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.210.15ber
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.210.15ber
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