This volume is dedicated to professor Jacob Hoftijzer on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday as well as of his retirement from the chair of "Hebrew Languag

The goal of the volume is to shed fresh light on Modern Hebrew from perspectives aimed at readers interested in the domains of general linguistics, typology, an

Looking at the grammars of Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic, Shlonsky examines clausal architecture and verb movement and the role of agreement in natural

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, br

Collected in this volume are articles published over the last three decades, which deal with various aspects of Semitic languages in general, the structure of H