Anna Inbar
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anna Inbar is involved.
2025 Contrastive negation constructions in Israeli Hebrew: A multimodal approach Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective, Nikiforidou, Kiki and Mirjam Fried (eds.), pp. 251–284 | Chapter
This study explores the functions of Hebrew Contrastive Negation constructions (CNs), which are usually considered grammatical patterns that combine the rejection of an accessible background assumption or an accessible claim in the discourse via its substitution, with the two being construed as… read more
2022 The Raised Index Finger gesture in Hebrew multimodal interaction Gesture 21:2/3, pp. 264–295 | Article
The present study examines the roles that the gesture of the Raised Index Finger (RIF) plays in Hebrew multimodal interaction. The study reveals that the RIF is associated with diverse linguistic phenomena and tends to appear in contexts in which the speaker presents a message or speech act that… read more
2020 Chapter 17. List constructions Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax, Berman, Ruth A. (ed.), pp. 623–658 | Chapter
The primary concern of this study is to examine list constructions in spoken Hebrew, from two perspectives: an intentional perspective setting out the properties that a linguistic expression needs in order to be considered a list construction (the concept) and an extensional perspective… read more
Insubordination in interaction: The case of Hebrew ironic ki ‘because’-clauses Interactional Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines a particular type of insubordinate clause in Hebrew that comprises an ironic utterance prefaced by the Hebrew causal conjunction ki ‘because.’ Our analysis reveals that in casual face-to-face interaction, ki-prefaced ironic clauses, although formally marked as subordinate of… read more