On the Alleged Unipartite Relatives in Semitic

On the Alleged Unipartite Relatives in SemiticZeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen GesellschaftSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/WSLKE3AH/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.NaamaPat-ElOn the Alleged Unipartite Relatives in Semitichttp://syriaca.org/cbss/WSLKE3AHhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/WSLKE3AHhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/WSLKE3AHZeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft170:22020279-287In a recent paper, Cohen (2018) suggested that nominal sentences without overt subjects are a regular and common part of Semitic grammar. More specifically, he suggested that some arguments in Semitic relative clauses are gapped, namely are missing on a regular basis. This, he argued, is especially common in relative clauses where the predicate is a prepositional phrase. In the current paper, I argue that relative clauses exhibit the same syntax as main clauses. I also provide additional evidence from Syriac and Assyrian Akkadian that prepositional phrases following a relative marker are phrasal, not clausal. Pat-El, Naama. “On the Alleged Unipartite Relatives in Semitic.” Zeitschrift Der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 170:2 (2020): 279–87. Naama Pat-El, On the Alleged Unipartite Relatives in Semitic, Zeitschrift Der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 170:2 (2020): 279–87.Classical SyriacSyriac languagegrammarsyntax