Shahar Shirtz
Biographic Data
| ID | 824879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shahar Shirtz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shahar |
| FAMILY NAME | Shirtz |
| SIGNATURE | SHIRTZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The English phrase-as-lemma construction
This article examines the English phrase-as-lemma (PAL) construction, which treats phrases syntactically as if they were words (e.g. a don’t-mess-with-me driver ). We argue that it is important to acknowledge and represent the construction’s unique syntax directly rather than trying to shoehorn it into a more familiar grammatical category such as Noun or Adjective. PALs do not share the same distribution as other categories, and critically, their…
Discourse markers as the locus of signaling the main-event line in Alsea narratives
This article argues that in Alsea ([aes]; Penutian/isolate; dormant; Oregon Coast) the main event line ( mel ) of narratives is reliably signaled by a particular combination of clause-initial particles, functioning as discourse markers, and not by a specific set of verb forms, the means usually identified and discussed in the literature as a cue for the mel status of a clause. The strength of the link between this combination of discourse markers…
Siuslaw final-consonant reduplication and the anti-mirative domain
This paper argues that the function of final consonant reduplication (FCR) in Siuslaw ([sis]; Oregon-Coast Penutian/Isolate) is to construe the information in a proposition as unsurprising and expected, as information that should already be known to listeners or at least well anticipated by them. This function is more or less the opposite of mirativity, where information is construed as surprising or unexpected, and is related to a functional dom…
The Evolutionary Dynamics of Negative Existentials in Indo-European
Where in earlier work diachronic change is used to explain away exceptions to typologies, linguistic typologists have started to make use of explicit diachronic models as explanations for typological distributions. A topic that lends itself for this approach especially well is that of negation. In this article, we assess the explanatory value of a specific hypothesis, the Negative Existential Cycle (NEC), on the distribution of negative existenti…
And now, co-occurrence and functionality of discourse markers on the Oregon Coast
The Evolutionary Dynamics of Negative Existentials in Indo-European
Where in earlier work diachronic change is used to explain away exceptions to typologies, linguistic typologists have started to make use of explicit diachronic models as explanations for typological distributions. A topic that lends itself for this approach especially well is that of negation. In this article, we assess the explanatory value of a specific hypothesis, the Negative Existential Cycle (NEC), on the distribution of negative existenti…
And now, co-occurrence and functionality of discourse markers on the Oregon Coast
Siuslaw final-consonant reduplication and the anti-mirative domain
This paper argues that the function of final consonant reduplication (FCR) in Siuslaw ([sis]; Oregon-Coast Penutian/Isolate) is to construe the information in a proposition as unsurprising and expected, as information that should already be known to listeners or at least well anticipated by them. This function is more or less the opposite of mirativity, where information is construed as surprising or unexpected, and is related to a functional dom…
Discourse markers as the locus of signaling the main-event line in Alsea narratives
This article argues that in Alsea ([aes]; Penutian/isolate; dormant; Oregon Coast) the main event line ( mel ) of narratives is reliably signaled by a particular combination of clause-initial particles, functioning as discourse markers, and not by a specific set of verb forms, the means usually identified and discussed in the literature as a cue for the mel status of a clause. The strength of the link between this combination of discourse markers…
The English phrase-as-lemma construction
This article examines the English phrase-as-lemma (PAL) construction, which treats phrases syntactically as if they were words (e.g. a don’t-mess-with-me driver ). We argue that it is important to acknowledge and represent the construction’s unique syntax directly rather than trying to shoehorn it into a more familiar grammatical category such as Noun or Adjective. PALs do not share the same distribution as other categories, and critically, their…
Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Discourse marker (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Natural language processing (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)