Nothing to agree on: Non-agreeing subjects of copular clauses in Hebrew

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Abstract

Copular clauses in Hebrew with the copula ze never allow their subjects to agree with the copula or with the post-copular predicate. Following previous work, it is shown that such clauses are not predicational and that their subjects often get a 'hidden event' interpretation. After ruling out an analysis that takes the copula to be the actual subject and an analysis involving a clausal subject, it is argued that these clauses involve a subject that lacks the features needed for subject-external agreement, while having the features needed for subject-internal agreement.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)85-108
Number of pages24
JournalActa Linguistica Hungarica
Volume59
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jun 2012

Keywords

  • Hebrew
  • agreement
  • copula
  • morphology
  • semantics
  • syntax

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