Biblical Hebrew Forum

[dwashbur AT nyx.net]

On 20 Jun 2010 at 21:24, James Christian wrote:

> 
> Hi, on reflection I was wondering what your thoughts about NPs with
> a direct object marker are. 
> Clearly a generic NP rule would cause over generation as subject NPs
> with a direct object 
> marker would be generated. 
> James Christian

The markers come in the semantic component.  Syntactically, the status of an 
NP as subject 
or object is decided by the generation of the VP, not the NP.  The NP 
internally is neutral.

Dave Washburn

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