Yaron McNabb
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yaron McNabb is involved.
Articles
2020 Degree modification across categories in Afrikaans Variation in phonology, Szigetvári, Péter (ed.), pp. 102–135 | Article
The paper presents an analysis of the Afrikaans degree modifier baie ‘very/much/many’. Baie appears to be a single lexical item with a wide distribution in terms of the categories of gradable predicate with which it can combine. However, the paper shows that two syntactically distinct instances… read more
2011 Extraction and deletion in Palestinian Arabic comparatives Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics, Broselow, Ellen and Hamid Ouali (eds.), pp. 149–166 | Article
Quantity and quality adjectives have a different distribution in comparative constructions that are headed by ma ‘that’ in Palestinian Arabic. The different distribution can be explained in configurational terms: The internal structure of the DP prohibits the movement of quality adjectives but not… read more