TY - CHAP
T1 - Negation in Modern Hebrew
AU - Shor, Leon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 John Benjamins Publishing Company.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - This chapter examines the expression of negation in spontaneous spoken Modern Hebrew. It provides a quantitative description of syntactic negation in the Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH) to address syntactic, pragmatic, and prosodic properties of negation. The study shows that in addition to the prototypical function of rejection and denial, negative utterances are used for mitigating evaluations, implying the desirability of a state/event, and strengthening the speaker's claim by rejecting potential counter-arguments. Moreover, the prosodic prominence of negators may be influenced by cognitive and interactional motivations. Particular attention is paid to phenomena that usually remain unaddressed in descriptions of negation, such as negative sentences with extra-sentential scope, negation-based discourse markers, and non-linguistic negation.
AB - This chapter examines the expression of negation in spontaneous spoken Modern Hebrew. It provides a quantitative description of syntactic negation in the Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH) to address syntactic, pragmatic, and prosodic properties of negation. The study shows that in addition to the prototypical function of rejection and denial, negative utterances are used for mitigating evaluations, implying the desirability of a state/event, and strengthening the speaker's claim by rejecting potential counter-arguments. Moreover, the prosodic prominence of negators may be influenced by cognitive and interactional motivations. Particular attention is paid to phenomena that usually remain unaddressed in descriptions of negation, such as negative sentences with extra-sentential scope, negation-based discourse markers, and non-linguistic negation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086701809&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1075/slcs.210.17sho
DO - 10.1075/slcs.210.17sho
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85086701809
T3 - Studies in Language Companion Series
SP - 583
EP - 621
BT - Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax
A2 - Berman, Ruth A.
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
ER -