Abstract
The paper examines the validity of classifying sentences in Colloquial Modern Hebrew which differ in syntactic, prosodic, and semantic-pragmatic properties under the common label 'existentials'. A consideration of putatively universal generalizations as well as language specific distributional properties of entities is shown to result in potentially conflicting classificatory criteria, and problems of the delimitation of syntax, semantics and pragmatics are brought up in this context.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 261-281 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Lingua |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 3-4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1982 |