Strategies of Compensation for “Missing” Categories in L1 and L2: Between Verbs and Nouns in Narrative and Expository Texts

The study reported in the present article examined the strategies used by speaker-writers of two Semitic languages, Hebrew and (Modern Standard) Arabic, in order to compensate for the lack of grammaticized categories in comparable written narrative and expository texts. For this purpose, we analyzed...

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Authors: Kupersmitt, Judy (Author) ; Laks, Lior (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 2015
In: Hebrew studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 209-229
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