Ruti Bardenstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1033830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruti Bardenstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruti |
| FAMILY NAME | Bardenstein |
| SIGNATURE | BARDENSTEIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6985-538X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The cyclicity of reborrowing and the ping-pong effect
Aims and objectives: The nature of the effect of language contact has been a source for extensive investigation in the linguistic field. More specifically, the case of reborrowing, that is, the shift from language A to language B and then cyclically back to language A, often involving a change in meaning and/or form, has been a source for extensive interest. In this paper, we examined the word ṣabāba/sababa ‘o.k’ as a case study of reborrowing fr…
The cyclic nature of negation
The Hebrew negation adverbial bilti ‘not’ seems to function very differently in Biblical Hebrew than it does in Contemporary Hebrew. This paper addresses this difference and discusses its evolution. The main question addressed in this paper is: How has Hebrew bilti , originally an exceptive marker (with sentential scoping), ended up functioning solely as a privative in contemporary Hebrew? First, this paper argues that the biblical usage of bilti…
From location to conjunction, disjunction, partition, exemplification and association
Analyzing the diachrony of Hebrew bein , originally a spatial preposition ‘within/among’, this article traces several grammaticization clines associated with bein ’s gradual evolution into a rich variety of functions within various constructions. While its early function is purely locative, bein later participates in an array of constructions and sub-constructions, where its syntactic status, its semantic meanings and functions, as well as its di…
Motion verbs and future constructions
The missing link between truth and intensification
Truth markers commonly evolve into intensifiers ( Heine & Kuteva 2002 ), but we here argue that this shift is only indirect, and a counter-loosening phase necessarily mediates between truth marking and intensification. Counter-looseners instruct the addressee to avoid (or rather, constrain) the very natural interpretative process of broadening, whereby the speaker-intended concept would have been taken as a loosened, “more or less” interpretation…
The case of question-based exclamatives
In this paper, I analyze the cyclic linguistic evolution of questions via Bardenstein’s ‘persistence principle’ (Bardenstein, Ruti. 2020b. Persistent argumentative discourse markers. The case of Hebrew rectification-marker be-ʕecem (‘actually’). Journal of Pragmatics 172. 254–269) and argue that questions become “polysemous” via a core function. I show that it is the question’s initial rhetorically-recruited function that motivates its semantic c…
Constructionalized rhetorical questions from negatively biased to negation polarity
How does a rhetorical question become an adverbial npi down-toner? This paper focusses on a specific type of grammaticalization process: the grammaticalization of a rhetorical construction à la Goldberg (1995) , namely, a “constructionalized rhetorical question” ( Bardenstein 2018 ) which turns into a down-toning adverbial. The particular focus of this paper is on the Hebrew lo mi yodea ma (‘not who knows what’; i.e., ‘not of high quality/quantit…
Persistent argumentative discourse markers
Persistent argumentative discourse markers
The case of question-based exclamatives
In this paper, I analyze the cyclic linguistic evolution of questions via Bardenstein’s ‘persistence principle’ (Bardenstein, Ruti. 2020b. Persistent argumentative discourse markers. The case of Hebrew rectification-marker be-ʕecem (‘actually’). Journal of Pragmatics 172. 254–269) and argue that questions become “polysemous” via a core function. I show that it is the question’s initial rhetorically-recruited function that motivates its semantic c…
Constructionalized rhetorical questions from negatively biased to negation polarity
How does a rhetorical question become an adverbial npi down-toner? This paper focusses on a specific type of grammaticalization process: the grammaticalization of a rhetorical construction à la Goldberg (1995) , namely, a “constructionalized rhetorical question” ( Bardenstein 2018 ) which turns into a down-toning adverbial. The particular focus of this paper is on the Hebrew lo mi yodea ma (‘not who knows what’; i.e., ‘not of high quality/quantit…
Persistent argumentative discourse markers
The missing link between truth and intensification
Truth markers commonly evolve into intensifiers ( Heine & Kuteva 2002 ), but we here argue that this shift is only indirect, and a counter-loosening phase necessarily mediates between truth marking and intensification. Counter-looseners instruct the addressee to avoid (or rather, constrain) the very natural interpretative process of broadening, whereby the speaker-intended concept would have been taken as a loosened, “more or less” interpretation…
The case of question-based exclamatives
In this paper, I analyze the cyclic linguistic evolution of questions via Bardenstein’s ‘persistence principle’ (Bardenstein, Ruti. 2020b. Persistent argumentative discourse markers. The case of Hebrew rectification-marker be-ʕecem (‘actually’). Journal of Pragmatics 172. 254–269) and argue that questions become “polysemous” via a core function. I show that it is the question’s initial rhetorically-recruited function that motivates its semantic c…
Constructionalized rhetorical questions from negatively biased to negation polarity
How does a rhetorical question become an adverbial npi down-toner? This paper focusses on a specific type of grammaticalization process: the grammaticalization of a rhetorical construction à la Goldberg (1995) , namely, a “constructionalized rhetorical question” ( Bardenstein 2018 ) which turns into a down-toning adverbial. The particular focus of this paper is on the Hebrew lo mi yodea ma (‘not who knows what’; i.e., ‘not of high quality/quantit…
Motion verbs and future constructions
The cyclic nature of negation
The Hebrew negation adverbial bilti ‘not’ seems to function very differently in Biblical Hebrew than it does in Contemporary Hebrew. This paper addresses this difference and discusses its evolution. The main question addressed in this paper is: How has Hebrew bilti , originally an exceptive marker (with sentential scoping), ended up functioning solely as a privative in contemporary Hebrew? First, this paper argues that the biblical usage of bilti…
From location to conjunction, disjunction, partition, exemplification and association
Analyzing the diachrony of Hebrew bein , originally a spatial preposition ‘within/among’, this article traces several grammaticization clines associated with bein ’s gradual evolution into a rich variety of functions within various constructions. While its early function is purely locative, bein later participates in an array of constructions and sub-constructions, where its syntactic status, its semantic meanings and functions, as well as its di…
The cyclicity of reborrowing and the ping-pong effect
Aims and objectives: The nature of the effect of language contact has been a source for extensive investigation in the linguistic field. More specifically, the case of reborrowing, that is, the shift from language A to language B and then cyclically back to language A, often involving a change in meaning and/or form, has been a source for extensive interest. In this paper, we examined the word ṣabāba/sababa ‘o.k’ as a case study of reborrowing fr…
Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works) · Hebrew (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Adverbial (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)