Rivka Halevy
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rivka Halevy plays a role.
Articles
2020 Chapter 13. Transitivity and valence Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax, Berman, Ruth A. (ed.), pp. 465–506 | Chapter
The study explores a range of transitive constructions of varying
prototypicality in Modern Hebrew (MH) referring to causal and non-causal events, including
complex predicates, semi-transitive and lexicalized constructions, with transitivity
analyzed as a morpho-syntactic category rather than a… read more
2020 Chapter 15. Impersonal and pseudo-impersonal constructions Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax, Berman, Ruth A. (ed.), pp. 539–582 | Chapter
The domain of impersonal constructions is highly complex and heterogeneous in
Hebrew as in other languages. It includes sentences that lack an overt constituent bearing
the properties of a referential and identifiable subject or that are altogether lacking in
canonical subject properties. The aim… read more
2016 The ‘swift of foot’ construction and the phrase structure of the adjectival construct in Hebrew Studies in Language 40:2, pp. 380–414 | Article
This article sheds new light on the puzzling phrase structure of complex adjectival phrases which are common in Semitic, specifically in Hebrew, and which are equivalent to Indo-European phrases such as ‘swift of foot.’ The article draws a clear distinction between these constructions and… read more
2016 Non-canonical ‘existential-like‘ constructions in colloquial Modern Hebrew Atypical predicate-argument relations, Ruchot, Thierry and Pascale Van Praet (eds.), pp. 27–60 | Article
The paper deals with the non-typical structure and coding properties of ‘existential-like’ constructions in Colloquial Modern Hebrew (CMH), with reference to parallels in some major Indo-European languages. The construction explored consists of an invariable (neuter) predicate incorporating an… read more