A non-uniform account of intransitive verbal forms in Hebrew

Itamar Kastner

A non-uniform account of intransitive verbal forms in Hebrew

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Abstract

The verbal template niXYaZ in Modern Hebrew allows for various kinds of verbal constructions save for a simple transitive verb. This is a puzzling state of affairs: unergatives that take an obligatory indirect object and unaccusatives are both attested, but transitive verbs are not allowed. I discuss what the morphology of this templates actually signals, given that internal and external arguments are both possible. Working in Distributed Morphology, I propose that a number of functional heads conspire to produce the existing alternation, with implications for theories of Semitic morphology as well as theories of argument structure in general.

Original language	English
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 7 Jan 2016
Event	The 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America: (LSA 2016) - Washington, DC, United States Duration: 7 Jan 2016 → 10 Jan 2016 https://www.linguisticsociety.org/event/lsa-2016-annual-meeting

Conference

Conference	The 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
Country/Territory	United States
City	Washington, DC
Period	7/01/16 → 10/01/16
Internet address	https://www.linguisticsociety.org/event/lsa-2016-annual-meeting

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