Lior Laks
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lior Laks is involved.
Articles
2026 The distribution of Arabic action nouns in text production: Between varieties and modalities Written Language & Literacy 29:1, pp. 99–145 | Article
The study examines grammatical differences between Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Palestinian Arabic (PA) in narrative and expository text production by adult PA native speakers. Specifically, we examine the distribution of action nouns to probe whether they can differentiate between varieties… read more
2019 Verbal patterns in Palestinian Arabic What is a verb? – Linguistic, psycholinguistic and developmental perspectives on verbs in Germanic and Semitic languages, Smolka, Eva and Dorit Ravid (eds.), pp. 209–236 | Article
The study examines the distribution of verbal patterns and their semantic-syntactic functions as they are used in spoken narrative text production by adult native speakers of Palestinian Arabic. 30 native Palestinian Arabic adult speakers from Kufur Qareʕ, a village in Central Israel, were shown… read more
2007 Morphology and thematic Arity operations: Evidence from standard Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics, Mughazy, Mustafa A. (ed.), pp. 51–67 | Article