Prof. Yael Greenberg

Unit

Linguistics

Rank

Associate Professor

Yael.Grinberg@biu.ac.il

Office

Bldg. 404 room 211

Reception Hours

By appointment

Personal Website

https://sites.google.com/view/yaelgreenberglinguistics/home

Fields of Interest

My main reserach areas formal semantics and the semantics-pragmatics interface.

Among other things, I have worked on the following research topics:

The semantics and pragmatics of alternative-sensitive expressions (exclusives, additives, scalars, incrementals etc.), their interaction with prosodical patterns, and the parameters along which they vary, both inter- and intra-linguistically.
The linguistic encoding of scales and the relationship between scalar particles and degree-based / gradability-related constructions
The linguistic encoding of different kinds of approximation, intensification, and vaguness.
Metalinguistic , discourse-based and speech-act related phenomena
Linguistic encoding of expectations and 'normality' (as with generics and various other modal constructions), as well as with their violations (as in 'mirative' constructions and expressions)
Hebrew linguistics

Courses

A Selection of courses taught over the past 10 years:

Undergraduate:

Introduction to Semantics

Advanced Semantics

Meaning and Use

Polarity and Scalarity

Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Graduate:

Approximation across domains

Context Sensitivity in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Accented operators at the semantics-pragmatics interface

Expressions of additivity and scalarity

Scalarity and discourse

Scale sensitive constructions

Expectations, alternatives and discourse updates

Incremental expressions and the semantics-pragmatics interface

Publications

Chen, Zhuang & Yael Greenberg (2022) “A novel argument for an even-like semantics of Mandarin dou”. In J. R. Starr, J. Kim and B. Oney (eds.) Proceedings of SALT32. p. 751-771. ISSN: 2163-5951

Greenberg, Yael (2022) “On the scalar antonymy of only and even”. Natural Language Semantics. 30, p. 415-452. doi: 10.1007/s11050-022-09200-x

Orenstein, Dina & Greenberg, Yael, (2021) “Approximation derived from a scalar exclusive particle associating with covert focus: The case of Hebrew be-sax ha-kol”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1), doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1036 (No page numbers)

Greenberg Yael, (2020) “An Overt Even Operator over Covert-Based Focus Alternatives: The Case of Hebrew BIXLAL”, Journal of Semantics, 37(1), p.1–42, ISSN: 01675133, 14774593 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffz010

Greenberg, Yael, & Lavi Wolf, (2019) “Intensified Response Particles to Assertions and Polar Questions: The Case of Hebrew legamrey”, in M. Baird & J. Pesetsky (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 49, vol. 2, p. 61–70. Amherst: GLSA. https://www.amazon.com/NELS-49-Proceedings-Forty-Ninth-Linguistic/dp/1698805934 preprint.

Greenberg, Yael, (2019) “Even and Only: Arguing for parallels in scalarity and in constructing focus alternatives”, in M. Baird & J. Pesetsky (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 49, Cornell University, vol. 2, p. 45-60. Amherst: GLSA. https://www.amazon.com/NELS-49-Proceedings-Forty-Ninth-Linguistic/dp/1698806000

Daniels, Micky & Greenberg, Yael (2019) “Even, comparatives and extreme adjectives”, in C. Pinon, (ed.) Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 12, p. 61-89. http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/eiss12/index_en.html

Greenberg, Yael, (2018) “A revised, gradability-based semantics for even” . Natural Language Semantics 26, p. 51–83, ISSN: 0925854X doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-017-9140-0

Greenberg, Yael, & Lavi Wolf, (2018) “Gradable assertion speech acts”, in S. Hucklebridge & M. Nelson, (eds). Proceedings of NELS48, 1, p. 271-280. https://www.worldcat.org/title/nels-48-proceedings-of-the-forty-eighth-annual-meeting-of-the-north-east-linguistic-society-october-27-29-2017-university-of-iceland/oclc/1079005796

Greenberg, Yael, (2018) “Operating over (internal) ‘covert-based’ alternatives with scalar focus sensitive particles: Evidence from Modern Hebrew”, in R. Truswell, C. Cummins, C. Heycock, B. Rabern, and H. Rohde (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21 p. 499-516, ISSN: 2629-6055 https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/DRjNjViN/index.html

Moria Ronen, Greenberg, Yael & Sassoon, Galit W. (2018) “A lexical marker of degrees of answerhood”, in in R. Truswell, C. Cummins, C. Heycock, B. Rabern, and H. Rohde (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21, p. 1035-1050 ISSN: 2629-6055 https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/DRjNjViN/index.html

Greenberg, Yael, (2017), “But, Scalar Implicatures and Covert Quotation Operators”, in A. Cremers, T. & F. Roelofsen (eds.) Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium, p. 275-284. https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/jZiM2FhZ/AC2017-Proceedings.pdf

Greenberg, Yael, (2016) “A Novel Problem for the Likelihood-Semantics of Even” Semantics and Pragmatics 9, p. 1-28 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.9.2

Greenberg, Yael, (2015), “Even, Comparative Likelihood and Gradability”, in T. Brochhagen, F. Roelofsen & N. Theiler (eds.) Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium, p. 147-157. https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/mVkOTk2N/AC2015-proceedings.pdf

Greenberg, Yael & Orestein, Dina (2013), “Exclusives in Hebrew: A Core Meaning and Varying Parameters”, in N. Melnik (ed.) Proceedings of IATL 29, MITWPL 73. https://www.iatl.org.il/?page_id=701

Dina Orenstein & Yael Greenberg, (2013) "A Flexible Exclusive Particle: The Case of the Hebrew be-sax ha-kol ("all in all"), in E. Chemla, V. Homer, G. Winterstein (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 17 p. 363-380 ISSN: 2629-6055,

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Greenberg, Yael, (2013) "Genericity in Modern Hebrew", in Khan, G. (ed.), Brill's Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics. https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopedia-of-hebrew-language-and-linguistics

Greenberg, Yael, (2012) “Genericity and (Non)accidentalness” in Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes, 4, p. 163-190, ISSN: 09866124 doi: https://doi.org/10.4000/rlv.2119 preprint.

Greenberg, Yael, (2012) "Event-based Additivity in English and in Modern Hebrew", in Verbal Plurality and Distributivity, B. Laca and P. Cabrado Hofherr (eds.), p. 127-158. Linguistische Arneiten, de Gruyter. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110293500

Greenberg, Yael & Ronen, Moria (2012), "Three Approximators which are almost / more or less / be-gadol the Same", in E. Cohen (ed.) Proceedings of IATL 28. MITWPL 68. https://www.iatl.org.il/?page_id=698

Greenberg, Yael & Khrizman, Keren (2012), “Bixlal: A General Strengthening Operator in Hebrew”, in E. Cohen (ed.) Proceedings of IATL 27, MITWPL 65. https://www.iatl.org.il/?page_id=190

Orenstein, Dina & Greenberg, Yael (2011) "The Semantics and Focus Sensitivity of the Hebrew (unstressed) Stam", in Y. Falk (ed.) Proceedings of IATL 26. https://www.iatl.org.il/?page_id=46

Greenberg, Yael, (2010) “Additivity in the Domain of Eventualities (or: Oliver Twist's more)”, in M. Prinzhorn, V. Schmitt and S. Zobel (eds.): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14, Vienna, p. 151 – 167. ISSN: 262960455 https://www.univie.ac.at/sub14/

Greenberg, Yael, (2010) “Event Internal Pluractionality in Modern Hebrew: A Semantic Analysis of One Verbal Reduplication Pattern”, Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 2(1), p. 119-164. Preprint

Greenberg, Yael, (2009) Presupposition Accommodation and Informativity Considerations with Apectual Still," Journal of Semantics, 26(1) p. 49–86, ISSN: 01675133, 14774593 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffn009

Greenberg, Yael, (2009) “Predication and Identity in Hebrew non-pseudocleft copular sentences”, in S. Armon-Lotem, G. Danon and S. Rothstein (eds.) Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics, p. 161-196 John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.134

Greenberg, Yael, (2007), “Exceptions to Generics: Where Vagueness, Context Dependence and Modality Interact”, Journal of Semantics, 24(2) p. 131–167, ISSN: 01675133, 14774593, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffm002

Greenberg, Yael, (2006) Structuring Aspectual and Temporal Relations with Two Hebrew Adverbials and the Semantics / Pragmatics of still" Proceedings of The 9th Symposium on Logic and Language, p. 62-69, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. http://www.nytud.hu/lola9/proceedings.html

Greenberg, Yael, (2006) "Tolerating Exceptions With ‘Descriptive’ and ‘In Virtue of’ Generics: Two Types of Modality and Reduced Vagueness",in K. Von Heusinger & K. Turner (eds.) Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics: The Michigan Papers, p. 197-224 Elsevier. https://brill.com/view/title/23309

Greenberg, Yael, (2003) Manifestations of Genericity, “Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics” series. Routledge, New York. https://www.routledge.com/Manifestations-of-Genericity/Greenberg/p/book/9780415861373

Greenberg, Yael, (2002) “Two Kinds of Quantificational Modalized Genericity, and the Interpretation of Bare Plural and Indefinite Singular NPs”, in B. Jackson (ed.) Proceedings of SALT XII, p. 104-123 CLC publications, Cornell university. ISSN: 21635961 https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/issue/view/97

Greenberg, Yael, (2002) “The Manifestation of Genericity in the Tense Aspect System of Hebrew Nominal Sentences”, in G. Ohalla, & U. Shlonsky (eds.) Themes in the Syntax of Arabic and Hebrew. p. 267-298. Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-010-0351-3

Greenberg, Yael, (1998) “An Overt Syntactic Marker for Genericity in Hebrew”, in S. Rothstein (ed.) Events and Grammar, p. 125-143. Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-011-3969-4

Last Updated Date : 13/02/2024