Hebrew possessive datives: corpus evidence for the role of affectedness

The diminishing role of inalienability in the Hebrew possessive dative

Hebrew has two constructions that are used to convey possessive relations: ordinary possession (OP) and possessive dative (PD). PD is most often used when the possessor is perceived as affected by the action or state described in the sentence. This study investigates the possibility that this tendency is gradually diminishing – in other words, that unaffected possessors in PD are in the process...

Young Children and A-chains: The Acquisition of Hebrew Unaccusatives

SV sentences with unaccusative verbs like The leaf fell involve movement from object to subject position. This line of studies tested whether young children can produce this movement and whether they represent SV sentences with unaccusatives as derived by movement. In Hebrew, unaccusatives appear in both SV and VS orders. This optionality allows for the testing of the acquisition of object-to-s...

The Dative in Modern Icelandic : Exploration of the Semantic Genotype of the Dative in Natural Languages

This paper discusses distribution of the dative in Modern Icelandic. Similar to Latin, Modern Icelandic exhibits occurrences of the possessive dative, i.e., the dative which marks the possessor of a noun. However, although Latin shows free occurrences of possessive datives, there is a syntactic restriction imposed on the distribution of possessive datives in Modern Icelandic. The possessive dat...

Table 7: the Hebrew{latin Transliteration

Following is the set of rules used for Hebrew in order to automatically generate the SW set for every morphological analysis in Hebrew. Note that in case an analysis includes a particular attached particle, this particle is also attached to each of its similar words: 1. A deenite form of a noun { the SW set includes the indeenite form of the same noun. 2. An indeenite form of a noun { the deeni...

A Prominence Account of the Hebrew Possessive Dative Construction