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Publication details [#3771]
Givón, Talmy. 1976. On the VS word order in Israeli Hebrew: Pragmatics and typological change. In Cole, Peter, ed. Studies in modern Hebrew syntax and semantics: The transformational-generative approach. North Holland. pp. 153–181.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
A discussion of a number of problems related to the Verb-Subject word order variant in Hebrew. G. shows, i.a., that this variant is controlled by pragmatic considerations involving the given/new distinction.