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Publication details [#1263]

Ben-Horin, Gad. 1976. Aspects of syntactic preposing in spoken Hebrew. In Cole, Peter, ed. Studies in modern Hebrew syntax and semantics: The transformational-generative approach. North Holland. pp. 193–207.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

left-dislocation | psychiatric disturbance | topic vs. focus

Language as a subject

Annotation

On the (very common) phenomenon of syntactic preposing in Hebrew, and the relevance of the notions of topic and focus for explaining it.