Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Possession in Hebrew
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| Author: | Simona Herdan | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Semantics
Syntax |
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| Subject Language(s): |
Hebrew
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| Query: |
Hello Linguists,
I am gathering information for a project on various aspects of possession in Hebrew. What I find most interesting is the use of ''there is/are'' to render the present tense of ''to have'' and of the forms of ''to be'' for the other tenses. These verbal forms are followed by a preposition indicating goal/direction. So, literally, a sentence like ''I had a book'' would be translated as ''A book WAS TO ME''. I wonder if such correspondences between ''to have'' and ''to be'' exist in other languages too. I would very much appreciate any help in finding references to studies dealing with possession in general and also with this particular aspect of Hebrew or of another language. Any comments are welcome. Please respond to me privately at simona@interplus.ro Thank you all in advance. I will summarize to the list if there is enough response. Simona Herdan Linguistics student University of Bucharest, Romania |
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| LL Issue: | 10.530 | |
| Date posted: | 13-Apr-1999 | |
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