Studies in Semitic Syntax

by Geoffrey Khan

This study of the syntactic constructions of extraposition and pronominal agreement in Semitic languages--Arabic, Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, and Amharic--examines both structure and function, using a method of discourse analysis to demonstrate how syntactic constructions are used to mark boundaries in the semantic structure of texts.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 5, 1989

About the author

Geoffrey Allan Khan is a British linguist who has held the post of Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge since 2012. He has published grammars for the Aramaic dialects of Iraq and Iran; and leads the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Database.