Mira Ariel
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mira Ariel plays a role.
Articles
2022.
Truth markers commonly evolve into intensifiers (Heine & Kuteva 2002), but we here argue that this shift is only indirect, and a counter-loosening phase necessarily mediates between truth marking and intensification. Counter-looseners instruct the addressee to avoid (or rather, constrain) the very… read more | Article
Chapter 16. Why it’s hard to construct ad hoc number concepts. Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work, Mauri, Caterina, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria (eds.), pp. 439–462
2021. Lexical meanings are routinely adjusted in order to evoke ad hoc concepts. But number words pose a unique challenge. Carston (2002) discusses two relevant interpretative processes in this connection. Broadening (as in metaphorical uses) introduces an ad hoc concept by incorporating interpretations… read more | Chapter
Or constructions: Code, inference and cue too. On the Role of Pragmatics in Construction Grammar, Finkbeiner, Rita (ed.), pp. 193–219
2019. Utterance interpretation involves semantically specified codes and context-based pragmatic inferences, which complement each other. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the very complex relation between a subset of codes, Goldbergian constructions, specifically ones centering around… read more | Article
Chapter 2. What’s a reading?. Implicitness: From lexis to discourse, Cap, Piotr and Marta Dynel (eds.), pp. 15–36
2017. Linguists sometimes assume that the readings associated with linguistic utterance, both explicit and implicit, are self-evident. I here problematize the concept of a reading associated with linguistic expressions, and restrict it to interpretations systematically intended by the speaker using the… read more | Chapter
2015.
Based on a large corpus of dative constructions in Hebrew, we propose that dative-marked pronominals manifest a facilitated path from adjunct to argument. Since datives tend to be pronominal, adding them onto existing argument structures avoids a clash with the Preferred Argument Structure (PAS)… read more | Article
A grammar in every register? The case of definite descriptions. The Grammar–Pragmatics Interface: Essays in honor of Jeanette K. Gundel, Hedberg, Nancy and Ron Zacharski (eds.), pp. 265–292
2007. Article
Accessibility theory: An overview. Text Representation: Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects, Sanders, Ted J.M., Joost Schilperoord and Wilbert Spooren (eds.), pp. 29 ff.
2001. Article
Cognitive Universals and Linguistic Conventions: The Case of Resumptive Pronouns. Studies in Language 23:2, pp. 217–269
1999. Generativist pragmatists and discourse grammarians both subscribe to a functional view of language, but they do not agree on the nature of pragmatic principles. Prince (1988a,b) has argued that form-function correlations are arbitrary and language specific. Discourse grammarians have argued that… read more | Article
Mapping So-called “Pragmatic” Phenomena According to a “Linguistic-Extralinguistic” Distinction: The case of propositions marked “accessible”. Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume II: Case studies, Darnell, Michael, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 11 ff.
1999. Article
Discourse Markers and Form-function Correlations. Discourse Markers: Descriptions and theory, Jucker, Andreas H. and Yael Ziv (eds.), pp. 223 ff.
1998. Article
Referring Expressions and the +/- Coreference Distinction. Reference and Referent Accessibility, Fretheim, Thorstein and Jeanette K. Gundel (eds.), pp. 13 ff.
1996. Article
The Role of Women in Linguistic and Narrative Change: A Study of the Hebrew Pre-State Literature. Journal of Narrative and Life History 2:4, pp. 309–332
1992. Abstract This article investigates gender stereotyping in the Hebrew literature in Palestine during the 1930s in order to find out the extent to which a new ideology effects linguistic and narrative changes. On the assumption that the foundation of the new society was motivated by an egalitarian… read more | Article