Strategies of Clause Linking in Semitic Languages. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, Kivik, Sweden, 5-7 August 2012: [Review]

The book under review brings together eleven studies on clause linking in Semitic.
The articles treat different languages (with the usual slant toward the Big Two: Arabic with four articles and Biblical Hebrew with five; Aramaic is not represented at
all) and employ various approaches to the material. While the linguistic background
differs in each case, there are common denominators: The dichotomy of coordination vs. subordination is abandoned in favor of a scalar approach, and due attention
is given to the switch of verbal forms as a means to signal deviations from the main
line. As space does not permit a detailed discussion of all articles, we will make do
with concise summaries.