Linguistics in Amsterdam 2-1 (september 2009)

A Tenseless System in Search of Tense-oriented Constructions: The Case of Spoken Israeli Hebrew

Nurit Dekel

ACLC, University of Amsterdam.


Abstract
1 Introduction
2 TMA Definitions
2.1 Tense
2.2 Aspect
2.3 Mood
3 Overview of Hebrew verb morphology
4 Study design
4.1 Corpus
4.2 Organization of the data
4.2.1 Transcription
4.2.2 Isolation of TMA-bearing verbs and verb constructions
5 Research process
5.1 Research methods
5.2 Statistical analyses
6 Results
6.1 Forms and structures
6.2 Semantic categories
6.3 Examples
6.4 Summary of findings
7 Conclusions
8 List of references
9 List of abbreviations and short terms