Abstract
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.
Abbreviations
- 1
-
1st person
- 2
-
2nd person
- 3
-
3rd person
- abs
-
absolutive
- dat
-
dative
- def
-
definite
- exp
-
experiential
- ext
-
existential
- ext-ee
-
existee
- f
-
feminine
- fut
-
future tense
- imp
-
imperative
- impf
-
imperfetive
- inf
-
infinitive
- m
-
masculine
- n
-
noun
- neg
-
negative
- om
-
object marker
- p
-
predicate
- pass
-
passive
- pl
-
plural
- poss
-
possessive
- poss-ee
-
possessee
- poss-or
-
possessor
- pro
-
pronoun
- prs
-
present
- pst
-
past
- q
-
question designator
- sg
-
singular
- ø
-
zero subject predicate
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