Ivy Sichel
Biographic Data
| ID | 818444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivy Sichel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivy |
| FAMILY NAME | Sichel |
| SIGNATURE | SICHEL I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Subject islands do not reduce to construction-specific discourse function
A central question about our shared capacity for language is how it is integrated with other cognitive systems. One important debate focuses on the extent to which the form of linguistic expressions is grounded in their communicative function: Can all constraints on linguistic form be attributed to the way constructions package information, or is linguistic form autonomous of meaning and function? One area of disagreement involves islands: phrase…
The Featural Life of Nominals
We introduce a novel locality violation and its repair in Southeastern Sierra Zapotec: an object pronoun cannot cliticize when the subject is a lexical DP. We develop an account in which pronouns and lexical DPs interact with the same probe because they share featural content. In particular, we suggest that the Person domain extends to include nonpronominal DPs, so that all nominals are specified for a feature we call [δ] (to resonate with DP), w…
Extraction from English RCs and Cross-Linguistic Similarities in the Environments That Facilitate Extraction
In the first two decades following Ross's Constraints on Variables in Syntax, a picture emerged in which the Mainland Scandinavian (MS) languages appeared to systematically evade some of the locality constraints proposed by Ross, including the relative clause (RC) part of the complex NP constraint. The MS extraction patterns remain a topic of debate, but there is no consensus as to why extraction from RCs should be so degraded in English (compare…
Language Contact, continuity and change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew, by Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport-Hovav, Yael Reshef, and Moshe Taube
The logic of Person markedness
In some languages, such as Hebrew and German, a D-PRONOUN (a pronominal demonstrative form) may refer to a human. When it does, the use of the d-pronoun may be associated with a pejorative effect, implying a negative evaluation of the denoted individual (henceforth N(EGATIVE)-EFFECT). The N-effect is triggered, however, only under certain conditions. For example, when the d-pronoun is modified, no N-effect arises. This article examines the syntac…
Anatomy of a Counterexample
Relative clauses (RCs) are considered islands for extraction, yet acceptable cases of overt extraction from RCs have been attested over the years in a variety of languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Japanese, Hebrew, English, Italian, Spanish, French, and also in Lebanese Arabic and Mandarin Chinese, where covert extraction from an RC is observed. The possibility for extraction has often been presented as evidence against a syntactic theory of …
Superfluous Negation in Modern Hebrew and Its Origins
In this article, we survey a variety of constructions in contemporary Modern Hebrew that include seemingly superfluous instances of negation. These include free relatives, exclamative rhetorical questions, clausal complements of ‘until,’ ‘without,’ and ‘before,’ clausal complements of ‘fear’-type verbs, after negated ‘surprise,’ and the complement of ‘almost’ (a construction by now obsolete). We identify possible sources for these constructions i…
Resumptive Pronouns and Competition
A Minimalist hypothesis about resumptive pronouns is that they should be no different from ordinary pronouns ( McCloskey 2006 ). The article substantiates this hypothesis with respect to a particular view of pronouns: pronouns are ''elsewhere'' elements. Just as the interpretation of ordinary pronouns, on this view, is determined by competition with anaphors, so the interpretation of resumptive pronouns is determined by competition with gaps. On …
Negative DPs, A-Movement, and Scope Diminishment
Lasnik (1999) has claimed that NegDPs in derived subject position cannot be interpreted in the embedded clause and do not undergo A-chain reconstruction. We show that with a well-defined set of predicates, including deontic modals and raising predicates, scope diminishment of NegDP is observed. We argue, nevertheless, that scope diminishment in these cases is not produced by A-chain reconstruction. We also show that A-chain reconstruction of the …
Lexical Semantics, Syntax, and Event Structure
This book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. Leading scholars explore the division of labour between syntax, compositional semantics, and lexical semantics in the encoding of event structure, encompassing event participants and the temporal properties associated with events. They examine the interface between event struc…
Lexical semantics, syntax, and event structure
This text focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. It explores the division of labour between syntax, compositional semantics, and lexical semantics in the encoding of event structure
Deconstructing possession
New Evidence for the Structural Realization of the Implicit External Argument in Nominalizations
October 01 2009 New Evidence for the Structural Realization of the Implicit External Argument in Nominalizations In Special Collection: CogNet Ivy Sichel Ivy Sichel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ivy Sichel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2009 Linguistic…
Resumptive Pronouns and Competition
A Minimalist hypothesis about resumptive pronouns is that they should be no different from ordinary pronouns ( McCloskey 2006 ). The article substantiates this hypothesis with respect to a particular view of pronouns: pronouns are ''elsewhere'' elements. Just as the interpretation of ordinary pronouns, on this view, is determined by competition with anaphors, so the interpretation of resumptive pronouns is determined by competition with gaps. On …
Anatomy of a Counterexample
Relative clauses (RCs) are considered islands for extraction, yet acceptable cases of overt extraction from RCs have been attested over the years in a variety of languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Japanese, Hebrew, English, Italian, Spanish, French, and also in Lebanese Arabic and Mandarin Chinese, where covert extraction from an RC is observed. The possibility for extraction has often been presented as evidence against a syntactic theory of …
Negative DPs, A-Movement, and Scope Diminishment
Lasnik (1999) has claimed that NegDPs in derived subject position cannot be interpreted in the embedded clause and do not undergo A-chain reconstruction. We show that with a well-defined set of predicates, including deontic modals and raising predicates, scope diminishment of NegDP is observed. We argue, nevertheless, that scope diminishment in these cases is not produced by A-chain reconstruction. We also show that A-chain reconstruction of the …
Deconstructing possession
Extraction from English RCs and Cross-Linguistic Similarities in the Environments That Facilitate Extraction
In the first two decades following Ross's Constraints on Variables in Syntax, a picture emerged in which the Mainland Scandinavian (MS) languages appeared to systematically evade some of the locality constraints proposed by Ross, including the relative clause (RC) part of the complex NP constraint. The MS extraction patterns remain a topic of debate, but there is no consensus as to why extraction from RCs should be so degraded in English (compare…
New Evidence for the Structural Realization of the Implicit External Argument in Nominalizations
October 01 2009 New Evidence for the Structural Realization of the Implicit External Argument in Nominalizations In Special Collection: CogNet Ivy Sichel Ivy Sichel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ivy Sichel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2009 Linguistic…
The logic of Person markedness
In some languages, such as Hebrew and German, a D-PRONOUN (a pronominal demonstrative form) may refer to a human. When it does, the use of the d-pronoun may be associated with a pejorative effect, implying a negative evaluation of the denoted individual (henceforth N(EGATIVE)-EFFECT). The N-effect is triggered, however, only under certain conditions. For example, when the d-pronoun is modified, no N-effect arises. This article examines the syntac…
New Evidence for the Structural Realization of the Implicit External Argument in Nominalizations
October 01 2009 New Evidence for the Structural Realization of the Implicit External Argument in Nominalizations In Special Collection: CogNet Ivy Sichel Ivy Sichel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ivy Sichel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2009 Linguistic…
Lexical Semantics, Syntax, and Event Structure
This book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. Leading scholars explore the division of labour between syntax, compositional semantics, and lexical semantics in the encoding of event structure, encompassing event participants and the temporal properties associated with events. They examine the interface between event struc…
Lexical semantics, syntax, and event structure
This text focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. It explores the division of labour between syntax, compositional semantics, and lexical semantics in the encoding of event structure
Deconstructing possession
Negative DPs, A-Movement, and Scope Diminishment
Lasnik (1999) has claimed that NegDPs in derived subject position cannot be interpreted in the embedded clause and do not undergo A-chain reconstruction. We show that with a well-defined set of predicates, including deontic modals and raising predicates, scope diminishment of NegDP is observed. We argue, nevertheless, that scope diminishment in these cases is not produced by A-chain reconstruction. We also show that A-chain reconstruction of the …
Resumptive Pronouns and Competition
A Minimalist hypothesis about resumptive pronouns is that they should be no different from ordinary pronouns ( McCloskey 2006 ). The article substantiates this hypothesis with respect to a particular view of pronouns: pronouns are ''elsewhere'' elements. Just as the interpretation of ordinary pronouns, on this view, is determined by competition with anaphors, so the interpretation of resumptive pronouns is determined by competition with gaps. On …
Superfluous Negation in Modern Hebrew and Its Origins
In this article, we survey a variety of constructions in contemporary Modern Hebrew that include seemingly superfluous instances of negation. These include free relatives, exclamative rhetorical questions, clausal complements of ‘until,’ ‘without,’ and ‘before,’ clausal complements of ‘fear’-type verbs, after negated ‘surprise,’ and the complement of ‘almost’ (a construction by now obsolete). We identify possible sources for these constructions i…
Anatomy of a Counterexample
Relative clauses (RCs) are considered islands for extraction, yet acceptable cases of overt extraction from RCs have been attested over the years in a variety of languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Japanese, Hebrew, English, Italian, Spanish, French, and also in Lebanese Arabic and Mandarin Chinese, where covert extraction from an RC is observed. The possibility for extraction has often been presented as evidence against a syntactic theory of …
Language Contact, continuity and change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew, by Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport-Hovav, Yael Reshef, and Moshe Taube
The logic of Person markedness
In some languages, such as Hebrew and German, a D-PRONOUN (a pronominal demonstrative form) may refer to a human. When it does, the use of the d-pronoun may be associated with a pejorative effect, implying a negative evaluation of the denoted individual (henceforth N(EGATIVE)-EFFECT). The N-effect is triggered, however, only under certain conditions. For example, when the d-pronoun is modified, no N-effect arises. This article examines the syntac…
Extraction from English RCs and Cross-Linguistic Similarities in the Environments That Facilitate Extraction
In the first two decades following Ross's Constraints on Variables in Syntax, a picture emerged in which the Mainland Scandinavian (MS) languages appeared to systematically evade some of the locality constraints proposed by Ross, including the relative clause (RC) part of the complex NP constraint. The MS extraction patterns remain a topic of debate, but there is no consensus as to why extraction from RCs should be so degraded in English (compare…
The Featural Life of Nominals
We introduce a novel locality violation and its repair in Southeastern Sierra Zapotec: an object pronoun cannot cliticize when the subject is a lexical DP. We develop an account in which pronouns and lexical DPs interact with the same probe because they share featural content. In particular, we suggest that the Person domain extends to include nonpronominal DPs, so that all nominals are specified for a feature we call [δ] (to resonate with DP), w…
Subject islands do not reduce to construction-specific discourse function
A central question about our shared capacity for language is how it is integrated with other cognitive systems. One important debate focuses on the extent to which the form of linguistic expressions is grounded in their communicative function: Can all constraints on linguistic form be attributed to the way constructions package information, or is linguistic form autonomous of meaning and function? One area of disagreement involves islands: phrase…
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