6. Syntax of verbs and Clauses

This chapter includes sections on subordination, expressions of tense and aspect, and word order. The first study explores three types of subordination in Jewish Gabes—relative clauses, adverbial clauses, and complementation—considering both cross-linguistic and Semitic dimensions. Relative clauses are post-nominal, influenced by historical patterns of nominal dependency. Adverbial clauses, historically linked to nominal dependency, involve coordination for rendering relations. The analysis of complementation emphasises the influence of the matrix predicate's semantics on the complement's syntactic structure, and includes a semantic taxonomy. The second section explores aspectual and temporal values of the prefix and suffix stems. In addition, compound forms involving auxiliaries and preverbal particles are explained. The final section deals with word-order patterns attested in the narratives and aims to outline the functional differences between the subject-verb and topic-comment alignments.