Idan Caspi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Idan Caspi is involved.
Article
2026 Decomposing place names: Evidence from the Hebrew construct state Linguistics in the Netherlands 2026, Knooihuizen, Remco, Marloes Oomen and Alex Reuneker (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Article
This paper claims that place-denoting proper names (i.e., toponyms) are structurally decomposable. Evidence for this claim comes from Hebrew toponyms displaying noun-noun concatenation (e.g., Tel-Aviv). I show that such toponyms share properties with the Hebrew Construct State construction.… read more
