Modern Hebrew prefixoids: description and morpho-syntactic analysis

In Modern Hebrew, prefixoids such as tat ‘sub’, χad ‘mono’, etc. appear on nouns and suffixed adjectives. The status of the prefixoid is not clear: in some respects, it behaves like the morphological head, but in others it behaves like the dependent. Focusing on tat ‘sub’, this paper provides both the first thorough description of such an item and a morphological analysis. It is claimed that the prefixoid is always a nominal modifier. In some configurations, the modified nominal structure is null. These claims are shown to account for the selectional restrictions of the prefixoid, as well as the agreement and inflection patterns of the different items with tat.