Download or read book Studies in Semitic Syntax written by Geoffrey Khan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the syntactic constructions of extraposition and pronominal agreement in Semitic languages--Arabic, Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, and Amharic--examines both structure and function, using a method of discourse analysis to demonstrate how syntactic constructions are used to mark boundaries in the semantic structure of texts.