Daniel J. Wilson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Daniel J. Wilson is involved.

Title

Syntactic and Semantic Variation in Copular Sentences: Insights from Classical Hebrew

Daniel J. Wilson

This book presents a novel account of syntactic and semantic variation in copular and existential sentences in Classical Hebrew. Like many languages, the system of Classical Hebrew copular sentences is quite complex, containing zero, pronominal, and verbal forms as well as eventive and inchoative… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 261] 2020. xvi, 159 pp.

Articles

Wilson, Daniel J. 2023 The case for broader copulas: Evidence from Spanish, Tsez, and more Copulas in Spanish and Beyond, Gumiel-Molina, Silvia and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (eds.), pp. 389–410 | Article

Discovering, comparing, and contrasting natural kinds is critical for scientific progress. It should be the goal of linguistic inquiry to seek out natural kinds within and between languages. Unfortunately, the most common definition of a copula is consistently inadequate for categorizing and… read more

Wilson, Daniel J. 2020 The thetic/categorical distinction as difference in common ground update: With application to Biblical Hebrew Thetics and Categoricals, Abraham, Werner, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa (eds.), pp. 311–334 | Chapter

The distinction between thetics and categoricals in natural language has been observed in more and more languages recently. The theoretical discussion about the thetic/categorical distinction has also become increasingly relevant. This article presents a few challenges to an… read more