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Linguist interested in negation, metaphor, setentential syntax, discourse particles and philosophy of Sufism

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In this paper, we argue that the concept of MOTHER constitutes a fundamental component in the hum... more In this paper, we argue that the concept of MOTHER constitutes a fundamental component in the human conceptualization of love, empathy, and the Divine being. Some theories of psychology, psychoanalysis, and other disciplines attribute a prominent role for the mother-child relation in the very formation of the human SELF or identity. We present some linguistic evidence from Palestinian Arabic (and Hebrew) to substantiate the claim that the predicate woman/feminine is a necessary element in individuating the mental space of these concepts. Further linguistic evidence from Palestinian Arabic will be adduced for the lexicalization of the interdependence of the SELF(significant) OTHER relation. We conclude by drawing some theoretical implications which relate to the proper treatment of proper names and the use of empathy in education (cf. Rogers 1983).

Language Contact and the Development of Modern Hebrew, 2016

This article describes the innovative DMI construction-doubly-marked interrogativeof colloquial M... more This article describes the innovative DMI construction-doubly-marked interrogativeof colloquial Modern Hebrew, in which a question is doubly marked as interrogative. A DMI consists of two parts: (i) an ordinary question, which we call the content question, and (ii) an additional wh-phrase, the attitude marker, which embeds the content question, and whose function is to assign it additional illocutionary force, typically that of rejecting a presupposition salient in the discourse. The article suggests that the DMI was (re-) innovated in Modern Hebrew as a result of contact with Modern Arabic and Neo-Aramaic dialects. It may have been previously innovated in an earlier stage of Hebrew due to its contact with Aramaic.

Linguistics in the Netherlands, 1994

Linguistics in the Netherlands

This paper presents an analysis of a Palestinian Arabic negation-associated exclusive constructio... more This paper presents an analysis of a Palestinian Arabic negation-associated exclusive construction featuring the contrastive focus marker illa ‘but’, with theoretical implications for the syntax of negation, negative polarity item licensing, and the categorical status of the root in sentential syntax. It analyzes illa-phrases as constituents licensed by a c-commanding sentential negation (Neg), and illa as a grammatical device encoding contrastiveness. A crucial source for the exclusive semantics of the construction comes from a silent bass ‘only’ immediately following illa that constitutes a syntactic ‘shield’ against Neg scope. Rather than taking an in-situ focus-interpretation approach, we argue for two covert movements at the syntax-semantics interface: quantifier raising of illa-phrases to the designated specifier of polarity Phrase followed by Polarity-to-Focus-raising of Neg. This creates the right syntactic configuration for the truth conditional import of both operators and...

In this paper, we argue that the concept of MOTHER constitutes a fundamental component in the hum... more In this paper, we argue that the concept of MOTHER constitutes a fundamental component in the human conceptualization of love, empathy, and the Divine being. Some theories of psychology, psychoanalysis, and other disciplines attribute a prominent role for the mother-child relation in the very formation of the human SELF or identity. We present some linguistic evidence from Palestinian Arabic (and Hebrew) to substantiate the claim that the predicate woman/feminine is a necessary element in individuating the mental space of these concepts. Further linguistic evidence from Palestinian Arabic will be adduced for the lexicalization of the interdependence of the SELF(significant) OTHER relation. We conclude by drawing some theoretical implications which relate to the proper treatment of proper names and the use of empathy in education (cf. Rogers 1983).

Language Contact and the Development of Modern Hebrew, 2016

This article describes the innovative DMI construction-doubly-marked interrogativeof colloquial M... more This article describes the innovative DMI construction-doubly-marked interrogativeof colloquial Modern Hebrew, in which a question is doubly marked as interrogative. A DMI consists of two parts: (i) an ordinary question, which we call the content question, and (ii) an additional wh-phrase, the attitude marker, which embeds the content question, and whose function is to assign it additional illocutionary force, typically that of rejecting a presupposition salient in the discourse. The article suggests that the DMI was (re-) innovated in Modern Hebrew as a result of contact with Modern Arabic and Neo-Aramaic dialects. It may have been previously innovated in an earlier stage of Hebrew due to its contact with Aramaic.

Linguistics in the Netherlands, 1994

Linguistics in the Netherlands

This paper presents an analysis of a Palestinian Arabic negation-associated exclusive constructio... more This paper presents an analysis of a Palestinian Arabic negation-associated exclusive construction featuring the contrastive focus marker illa ‘but’, with theoretical implications for the syntax of negation, negative polarity item licensing, and the categorical status of the root in sentential syntax. It analyzes illa-phrases as constituents licensed by a c-commanding sentential negation (Neg), and illa as a grammatical device encoding contrastiveness. A crucial source for the exclusive semantics of the construction comes from a silent bass ‘only’ immediately following illa that constitutes a syntactic ‘shield’ against Neg scope. Rather than taking an in-situ focus-interpretation approach, we argue for two covert movements at the syntax-semantics interface: quantifier raising of illa-phrases to the designated specifier of polarity Phrase followed by Polarity-to-Focus-raising of Neg. This creates the right syntactic configuration for the truth conditional import of both operators and...

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