Theoretical issues in the grammar of Semitic languages

Author(s)

edited by Hagit Borer and Youssef Aoun

Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, c1981

Photocopy

Original issued in series: MIT working papers in linguistics ; v. 3

Includes bibliographies

A note on cyclic stress in Levantine Arabic / Michael Kenstowicz
Spirantization in Tigrinya / Barry Schein
The domain of weak cross-over restrictions / Youssef Aoun and Dominique Sportich
Vowel deletion, vowel reduction and Aramaic syllable structure / Susan D. Rothstein
Stress, pretonic strengthening, and syllabification in Tiberian Hebrew / John J. McCarthy
On the phonology of gutturals in Biblical Hebrew / Malke Rappaport
Comments on the pro-drop phenomena / Hagit Borer
Dative marking of the affected in modern Hebrew / Ruth A. Berman
Accentuation and metrical structure in Tiberian Hebrew / Bezalel Elan Dresher
Epenthesis and degenerate syllables in Cairene Arabic / Elisabeth Selkirk
On the development of the numeral 'one' as an indefinite marker / Talmi Givón