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Project description

Objective

To develop wide coverage HPSG grammars of Modern Hebrew and Modern Standard Arabic.

Researchers

In Haifa, Petter Haugereid, Tali Arad Greshler, Livnat Herzig Sheinfux and Shuly Wintner. In collaboration with Nurit Melnik, the Open University.

Status

Complete

Funding

Israeli Science Foundation (grant 505/11)

Abstract

Resources

Publications

• Livnat Herzig Sheinfux, Nurit Melnik and Shuly Wintner. Representing argument structure. Journal of Linguistics 53(4):701-750, November 2017. PDF.
• Tali Arad Greshler, Nurit Melnik and Shuly Wintner. Seeking control in Modern Standard Arabic. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2(1):90, 2017. PDF.
• Nurit Melnik. Raising, inversion and agreement in Modern Hebrew. Journal of Linguistics, accepted for publication. PDF
• Nurit Melnik. The development of the VOS construction. Paper presented at the Language Contact, Language Continuity and Change, and the Emergence of Modern Hebrew workshop, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 2016
• Nurit Melnik. Psych-verbs and subjecthood in Modern Hebrew. Paper presented at the Forty years after Keenan 1976: Subject properties and subject tests workshop, Ghent University, Belgium. 2016
• Tali Arad Greshler, Livnat Herzig Sheinfux, Nurit Melnik and Shuly Wintner. Reference patterns in subjunctive complement clauses of Modern Standard Arabic. Proceedings of the Joint 2016 Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional Grammar, pages 4-22, Warsaw, Poland, July 2016. PDF.
• Tali Arad Greshler, Livnat Herzig Sheinfux, Nurit Melnik and Shuly Wintner. Development of Maximally Reusable Grammars: Parallel Development of Hebrew and Arabic Grammars. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, pages 27-40, Singapore, August 2015. PDF.
• Livnat Herzig Sheinfux, Tali Arad Greshler, Nurit Melnik and Shuly Wintner. Hebrew Verbal Multi-Word Expressions. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, pages 122-135, Singapore, August 2015. PDF.
• Nurit Melnik. Language change in spoken Hebrew: Existence and possession. Hebrew Linguistics: A Journal for Hebrew Descriptive, Computational and Applied Linguistics, 68:67-82, 2014. (in Hebrew)
• Petter Haugereid, Nurit Melnik and Shuly Wintner. Nonverbal Predicates in Modern Hebrew. Proceedings of HPSG-2013, pages 69-89, Berlin, Germany, August 2013. PDF.