Ariel Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3844508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ariel Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ariel |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0568-0792 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Real-world impact of Covid-19 vaccination, household exposure, and circulating Sars-CoV-2 variants on infection risk and symptom presentation in a U.S./Mexico border community
Background: San Ysidro, a densely populated primarily Latino community near the U.S./Mexico border, reported the highest rate of COVID-19 infection in San Diego County. In this increased infection risk environment, we explored the impact of COVID-19 vaccine status, household exposure, and primary circulating SARS-CoV-2 variant on the probability of infection and symptom presentation while controlling for temporal and sociodemographic factors. Met…
Community utilization of a co-created Covid-19 testing program in a US/Mexico border community
These findings highlight the success and reach of this culturally responsive and community co-designed COVID-19 testing program, within a Latino/a border community. Future public health interventions should focus on identifying testing barriers and design appropriate strategies to ensure equitable access to resources and testing uptake for all community members
A semantic explanation for the External Argument Generalization
Probability in Semantics
In truth-conditional theories of the semantics of natural language, the main tool used is logic. There are, however, cases where a probabilistic account is attractive. The role of probability can vary from complementing a truth-conditional account to replacing it. In this article, I discuss three test cases of the use of probability in semantics: generics and frequency adverbs, vagueness, and conditionals. For each case, I examine the motivation …
Bare nominals and optimal inference
In this paper I discuss four type of bare nominal, and note that, in some sense, all of them appear to imply stereotypicality. I consider an account in terms of Bidirectional Optimality Theory: unmarked (bare) forms give rise to unmarked (stereotypical) interpretations. However, it turns out that, while the form of bare numerals is unmarked, the interpretation sometimes is not. I suggest that the crucial notion is not unmarkedness, but optimal in…
More Than Bare Existence: An Implicature of Existential Bare Plurals
Existential bare plurals (e.g. dogs ) have the same semantics as explicit existentials (e.g. a dog or some dogs ) but different pragmatics. In addition to entailing the existence of a set of individuals, existential bare plurals implicate that this set is suitable for some purpose. The suitability implicature is a form of what has been variously called informativeness-based or R-based implicature. Condoravdi (1992, 1994) and others have claimed t…
Blaming the United States, Israel, or Capitalism Is Not the Solution
The majority of participants (Cohen, Esposito, Fuller, and Khan) shared theconcern that militant and violent adherents of radical political Islam –“jihadis,” for lack of a better term – may not only radicalize the West’s attitudetoward western Muslims, but, more importantly, toward Islam as awhole. Indeed, the continuation of terrorism against western interests willlikely result in either an American or a combined western future response –both po…
Power or Ideology: What the Islamists Choose Will Determine Their Future
The DebateQuestion 1: Various commentators have frequently invoked the importance of moderate Muslims and the role that they can play in fighting extremism in the Muslim world. But it is not clear who is a moderate Muslim. The recent cancellation of Tariq Ramadan’s visa to the United States, the raids on several American Muslim organizations, and the near marginalization of mainstream American Muslims in North America pose the following question:…
Fronted quantificational adverbs
Fronting a noun phrase changes the focus structure of a sentence. Therefore, it may affect truth conditions, since some operators, in particular quantificational adverbs, are sensitive to focus. However, the position of the quantificational adverb itself, hence its informational status, is usually assumed not to have any semantic effect. In this paper I discuss a reading of some quantificational adverbs, the relative reading, which disappears if …
Promoting Freedom and Democracy: Fighting the War of Ideas Against Islamic Terrorism
For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself fighting a new war of ideas, a war against those who want to destroy America’s society and its core values, as well as societies of U.S. allies. The battle for hearts and minds is not a short-term campaign, but a protracted conflict that will take years, decades, and possibly generations to overcome. This is a battle in which it is necessary to understand target audi…
Topic, Focus, and the Interpretation of Bare Plurals
Relative Readings of Many, Often, and Generics
From Our Readers
The King of France Is, In Fact, Bald
Russian Imperialism: Development and Crisis
Introduction Definitions, Theories, and Methodology Historical Development of the Russian Empire The Soviet Empire: 1917-1985 Perestroika and the End of Empire Conclusions Bibliography Index
Aid Russia, but Reform the U.S. Program
USAID lacks the expertise to manage development programs in the post-communist countries. Congress should overhaul U.S. assistance programs to improve their effectiveness.
Reexamining Russia: Crime Without Punishment
Reexamining RussiaCrime Without Punishment Ariel Cohen (bio) It has long been obvious to all who grasp the disastrous legacy of communism that building democracy in Russia will be no easy task. Seven decades of totalitarian rule, which obliterated private property, economic markets, civil society, mutual trust, and any real concept of citizenship, are not a promising foundation on which to build democratic institutions. In many ways, given the en…
Reexamining Russia: Crime Without Punishment
Reexamining RussiaCrime Without Punishment Ariel Cohen (bio) It has long been obvious to all who grasp the disastrous legacy of communism that building democracy in Russia will be no easy task. Seven decades of totalitarian rule, which obliterated private property, economic markets, civil society, mutual trust, and any real concept of citizenship, are not a promising foundation on which to build democratic institutions. In many ways, given the en…
Topic, Focus, and the Interpretation of Bare Plurals
Relative Readings of Many, Often, and Generics
Russian Imperialism: Development and Crisis
Introduction Definitions, Theories, and Methodology Historical Development of the Russian Empire The Soviet Empire: 1917-1985 Perestroika and the End of Empire Conclusions Bibliography Index
A semantic explanation for the External Argument Generalization
Probability in Semantics
In truth-conditional theories of the semantics of natural language, the main tool used is logic. There are, however, cases where a probabilistic account is attractive. The role of probability can vary from complementing a truth-conditional account to replacing it. In this article, I discuss three test cases of the use of probability in semantics: generics and frequency adverbs, vagueness, and conditionals. For each case, I examine the motivation …
Aid Russia, but Reform the U.S. Program
USAID lacks the expertise to manage development programs in the post-communist countries. Congress should overhaul U.S. assistance programs to improve their effectiveness.
Reexamining Russia: Crime Without Punishment
Reexamining RussiaCrime Without Punishment Ariel Cohen (bio) It has long been obvious to all who grasp the disastrous legacy of communism that building democracy in Russia will be no easy task. Seven decades of totalitarian rule, which obliterated private property, economic markets, civil society, mutual trust, and any real concept of citizenship, are not a promising foundation on which to build democratic institutions. In many ways, given the en…
Russian Imperialism: Development and Crisis
Introduction Definitions, Theories, and Methodology Historical Development of the Russian Empire The Soviet Empire: 1917-1985 Perestroika and the End of Empire Conclusions Bibliography Index
From Our Readers
The King of France Is, In Fact, Bald
Relative Readings of Many, Often, and Generics
Topic, Focus, and the Interpretation of Bare Plurals
Promoting Freedom and Democracy: Fighting the War of Ideas Against Islamic Terrorism
For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself fighting a new war of ideas, a war against those who want to destroy America’s society and its core values, as well as societies of U.S. allies. The battle for hearts and minds is not a short-term campaign, but a protracted conflict that will take years, decades, and possibly generations to overcome. This is a battle in which it is necessary to understand target audi…
Fronted quantificational adverbs
Fronting a noun phrase changes the focus structure of a sentence. Therefore, it may affect truth conditions, since some operators, in particular quantificational adverbs, are sensitive to focus. However, the position of the quantificational adverb itself, hence its informational status, is usually assumed not to have any semantic effect. In this paper I discuss a reading of some quantificational adverbs, the relative reading, which disappears if …
More Than Bare Existence: An Implicature of Existential Bare Plurals
Existential bare plurals (e.g. dogs ) have the same semantics as explicit existentials (e.g. a dog or some dogs ) but different pragmatics. In addition to entailing the existence of a set of individuals, existential bare plurals implicate that this set is suitable for some purpose. The suitability implicature is a form of what has been variously called informativeness-based or R-based implicature. Condoravdi (1992, 1994) and others have claimed t…
Blaming the United States, Israel, or Capitalism Is Not the Solution
The majority of participants (Cohen, Esposito, Fuller, and Khan) shared theconcern that militant and violent adherents of radical political Islam –“jihadis,” for lack of a better term – may not only radicalize the West’s attitudetoward western Muslims, but, more importantly, toward Islam as awhole. Indeed, the continuation of terrorism against western interests willlikely result in either an American or a combined western future response –both po…
Power or Ideology: What the Islamists Choose Will Determine Their Future
The DebateQuestion 1: Various commentators have frequently invoked the importance of moderate Muslims and the role that they can play in fighting extremism in the Muslim world. But it is not clear who is a moderate Muslim. The recent cancellation of Tariq Ramadan’s visa to the United States, the raids on several American Muslim organizations, and the near marginalization of mainstream American Muslims in North America pose the following question:…
Bare nominals and optimal inference
In this paper I discuss four type of bare nominal, and note that, in some sense, all of them appear to imply stereotypicality. I consider an account in terms of Bidirectional Optimality Theory: unmarked (bare) forms give rise to unmarked (stereotypical) interpretations. However, it turns out that, while the form of bare numerals is unmarked, the interpretation sometimes is not. I suggest that the crucial notion is not unmarkedness, but optimal in…
Probability in Semantics
In truth-conditional theories of the semantics of natural language, the main tool used is logic. There are, however, cases where a probabilistic account is attractive. The role of probability can vary from complementing a truth-conditional account to replacing it. In this article, I discuss three test cases of the use of probability in semantics: generics and frequency adverbs, vagueness, and conditionals. For each case, I examine the motivation …
A semantic explanation for the External Argument Generalization
Community utilization of a co-created Covid-19 testing program in a US/Mexico border community
These findings highlight the success and reach of this culturally responsive and community co-designed COVID-19 testing program, within a Latino/a border community. Future public health interventions should focus on identifying testing barriers and design appropriate strategies to ensure equitable access to resources and testing uptake for all community members
Real-world impact of Covid-19 vaccination, household exposure, and circulating Sars-CoV-2 variants on infection risk and symptom presentation in a U.S./Mexico border community
Background: San Ysidro, a densely populated primarily Latino community near the U.S./Mexico border, reported the highest rate of COVID-19 infection in San Diego County. In this increased infection risk environment, we explored the impact of COVID-19 vaccine status, household exposure, and primary circulating SARS-CoV-2 variant on the probability of infection and symptom presentation while controlling for temporal and sociodemographic factors. Met…
Linguistics (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works)