Current Issues In Generative Hebrew Linguistics (linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today)

Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA) Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA) provides a platform for original monograph studies into synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Studies in LA confront empirical and theoretical problems as these are currently discussed in syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and systematic pragmatics with the aim to establish robust empirical generalizations within a universalistic perspective. General Editors Werner Abraham University of Vienna / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Elly van Gelderen Arizona State University Advisory Editorial Board Cedric Boeckx Christer Platzack Guglielmo Cinque Ian Roberts Günther Grewendorf Lisa deMena Travis Liliane Haegeman Sten Vikner Hubert Haider C. Jan-Wouter Zwart Harvard University University of Venice J.W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt University of Lille, France University of Salzburg University of Lund Cambridge University McGill University University of Aarhus University of Groningen Volume 134 Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem, Gabi Danon and Susan Rothstein Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem Gabi Danon Susan Rothstein Bar-Ilan University John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Current issues in generative Hebrew linguistics / edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem, Gabi Danon, Susan Rothstein.        p. cm. (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, issn 0166-0829 ; v. 134) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1.  Hebrew language--Syntax. 2.  Hebrew language--Grammar, Generative.  I. ArmonLotem, Sharon. II. Danon, Gabi. III. Rothstein, Susan Deborah. PJ4707C87    2008 492.4'5--dc22 isbn 978 90 272 5517 4 (Hb; alk. paper) 2008032721 © 2008 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents Acknowledgement Current issues in generative Hebrew linguistics Sharon Armon-Lotem, Gabi Danon and Susan Rothstein vii 1 part i. The structure of the lexicon Morphologically conditioned V–Ø alternation in Hebrew: Distinction among nouns, adjectives and participles, and verbs  Outi Bat-El 27 The special status of nif ’al in Hebrew Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald 61 Object gap constructions: Externalization and operator movement  Irena Botwinik-Rotem 77 Active lexicon: Adjectival and verbal passives Julia Horvath and Tal Siloni 105 part ii. Grammatical features and inflectional morphology Definiteness agreement with PP modifiers  Gabi Danon 137 Predication and equation in Hebrew (nonpseudocleft) copular sentences Yael Greenberg 161 Morphological knowledge without morphological structure: Morphology-prosody interface in the first Hebrew verbs Galit Adam and Outi Bat-El 197 The interaction between question formation and verbal morphology in the acquisition of Hebrew: A minimalist perspective Sharon Armon-Lotem 223 On child subjects in a partially pro-drop