Superfluous Negation in Modern Hebrew and Its Origins

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ID17823937
AutoresAriel Rubinstein (0000-0001-9900-106X, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, autor correspondente), Ivy Sichel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Avigail Tsirkin-Sadan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Ano2015
Volume3
Fascículo1-2
Páginas165-182
Data de publicação2015-10-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Jewish Languages (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2213-4387 • E-ISSN: 2213-4638
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/22134638-12340047
OpenAlexW2209450055
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas11

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 in pre-modern varieties of Hebrew. When an earlier source cannot be found, we examine earliest attestations of the constructions in modern-era corpora and consider the role of contact (primarily with Yiddish and Slavic) in their development

Art · Hebrew · Linguistics · Literature · Negation · Rhetorical question · Slavic languages · Sociology · Surprise · Communication · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism · Artificial Intelligence