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Cognate Objects in Modern and Biblical Hebrew

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Themes in Arabic and Hebrew Syntax

Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory ((SNLT,volume 53))

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This paper is part of a larger project of comparative research on cognate objects; some previous findings are presented in Pereltsvaig (1999a, b). It is also a continuation of decades-long research on cognate objects in both traditional and Generative linguistics. In (1) and (2) below, I give some examples of cognate objects (COs) in familiar languages such as English and French (these languages are quite well-studied in terms of their cognate object constructions). Here and below, COs are in bold.

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  1. University College Dublin, Ireland

    Jamal Ouhalla

  2. University of Geneva, Switzerland

    Ur Shlonsky

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Pereltsvaig, A. (2002). Cognate Objects in Modern and Biblical Hebrew. In: Ouhalla, J., Shlonsky, U. (eds) Themes in Arabic and Hebrew Syntax. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0351-3_4

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