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Borochovsky Bar-Aba, Esther. 2008. Structures with omitted prepositions: Semantic and pragmatic motivations. In Kurzon, Dennis and Silvia Adler, eds. Adpositions. Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives. (Typological Studies in Language 74). John Benjamins. pp. 67–83.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Annotation
In Hebrew syntax, the verb may be linked to its complement by mediation of various prepositions such as be- “in”, 'im “with”, or without mediation of prepositions (Ø, which in certain conditions, may be substituted by the direct object marker 'et). The article discusses instances in which the addresser chooses to use a structure without a preposition, whether such structure exists alongside a structure with a preposition, or whether the addresser innovatively creates a structure without a preposition. The preference of the structure without a preposition is due to various semantic and pragmatic motivations, such as expressing a more complete action or an action with the addition of adverbial meaning of intensity, and elevating the entity that is indicated by the complement to a higher level of importance.