This book explores some of the consequences of a specific hypothesis about aparticular systematic morphosyntactic pattern, with the aim of contributing to abroader understanding of the nature of constraints on morphosyntactic variation.Our argument is that variation is constrained by lexical semantics, in ways that arefamiliar from some corners of the linguistic literature, but that are not yet…
The aim of this book is to present a new theory of argument structure alterna-tions, one which is anchored in the syntax but has systematic interfaces with thephonology and the semantics. Conceptually, my goal is to argue for a specificformal system. Empirically, my goal is to provide the most comprehensive de-scription and analysis of Hebrew verbal morphology to date, one whose formal assumpti…