Israela Becker
List of John Benjamins publications for which Israela Becker plays a role.
Articles
2023 It’s all about the sentential construction: Lexicalization of complete mono-clausal sentences into words – Evidence from Hebrew Studies in Language 47:2, pp. 463–504 | Article
Cross-linguistically, very few complete sentences, as opposed to a myriad of phrases, lexicalize to become words. I here offer an account for this skewed distribution, along the lines of Construction Grammar, by analyzing a set of mono-clausal sentences in Hebrew which have indeed become – or… read more
2018 Strongly attenuating highly positive concepts: The case of default sarcastic interpretations Issues in Humour Cognition, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 19–47 | Article
What are the constraints rendering stimuli, such as Alert he is not; He is not the most organized person around; Hospitality is not his best attribute; Do you really believe you are sophisticated? sarcastic by default? Recent findings (Filik, Howman, Ralph-Nearman, & Giora, in press; Giora et al. read more
Scaffolding the sentential Ultimate construction into a word: A link-based analysis Constructions and Frames: Online-First Articles | Article
In this paper, we propose a model that accounts for the change in the grammatical status of the members of the Hebrew Ultimate construction family, the only full sentences in Hebrew to undergo lexicalization, from extra-sentential elements to full-fledged words, specifically, flexible modifiers.… read more