The Semantics of Aspect and Modality: Evidence from English and Biblical Hebrew
Galia Hatav
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 34] 1997. x, 224 pp.
Galia Hatav
List of John Benjamins publications for which Galia Hatav plays a role.
Title
Subjects Semantics
Articles
2006 The deictic nature of the directives in Biblical Hebrew Studies in Language 30:4, pp. 733–775 | Article
Biblical Hebrew has three specific verb forms for performing directive speech-acts such as commands and requests. Hebraists (e.g., Bendavid 1967) observe that two other forms are also used for this purpose, in addition to other uses.
In Hatav (1997), I show that those two forms are general… read more
2000 Review of Smith (1997): The Parameter of Aspect Pragmatics & Cognition 8:2, pp. 451–453 | Review
1999 Review of Hoye (1997): Adverbs and Modality in English Pragmatics & Cognition 7:1, pp. 214–219 | Review