TY - JOUR
T1 - Non-subject oriented existential, possessive and dative-experiencer constructions in Modern Hebrew - A cross-linguistic typological approach
AU - Halevy, Rivka
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/11/1
Y1 - 2023/11/1
N2 - This paper sheds light on the alignment of Existential, Possessive and Dative-Experiencer constructions prevalent in Modern Hebrew that involve ambiguity of syntactic relations. Data-driven and employing a strictly typological approach, the study argues that the constructions in question are fundamentally related, and that they do not conform to the typological criteria of 'subject-oriented' languages, like most Indo-European languages. It is suggested that an inner relationship holds between the constructions in question. As a non-subject oriented language that does not require entities of referential prominence to be encoded as subjects or topics, Hebrew tends to configure non-volitional events as happening, or coming from outside - existing with reference to the entity experiencing them or who is involved in them as Benefactive or Possessor.
AB - This paper sheds light on the alignment of Existential, Possessive and Dative-Experiencer constructions prevalent in Modern Hebrew that involve ambiguity of syntactic relations. Data-driven and employing a strictly typological approach, the study argues that the constructions in question are fundamentally related, and that they do not conform to the typological criteria of 'subject-oriented' languages, like most Indo-European languages. It is suggested that an inner relationship holds between the constructions in question. As a non-subject oriented language that does not require entities of referential prominence to be encoded as subjects or topics, Hebrew tends to configure non-volitional events as happening, or coming from outside - existing with reference to the entity experiencing them or who is involved in them as Benefactive or Possessor.
KW - Benefactive
KW - existential
KW - Experiencer
KW - Modern Hebrew
KW - possessive
KW - subject-oriented language
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U2 - 10.1515/stuf-2023-2020
DO - 10.1515/stuf-2023-2020
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AN - SCOPUS:85179471756
SN - 1867-8319
VL - 76
SP - 545
EP - 585
JO - STUF - Language Typology and Universals
JF - STUF - Language Typology and Universals
IS - 4
ER -