@inbook{786fbe46e2a245608d72ccc157fc87d6,
title = "Superfluous negation in modern Hebrew and its origins",
abstract = "In this article, we survey a variety of constructions in contemporary Modern Hebrew that include seemingly superfluous instances of negation. These include free relatives, exclamative rhetorical questions, clausal complements of {\textquoteleft}until,{\textquoteright} {\textquoteleft}without,{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}before,{\textquoteright} clausal complements of {\textquoteleft}fear{\textquoteright}-type verbs, after negated {\textquoteleft}surprise,{\textquoteright} and the complement of {\textquoteleft}almost{\textquoteright} (a construction by now obsolete). We identify possible sources for these constructions in pre-modern varieties of Hebrew. When an earlier source cannot be found, we examine earliest attestations of the constructions in modern-era corpora and consider the role of contact (primarily with Yiddish and Slavic) in their development.",
keywords = "Expletive negation, Language contact, Modern Hebrew, Negation, Superfluous negation",
author = "Aynat Rubinstein and Ivy Sichel and Avigail Tsirkin-Sadan",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 6",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1163/9789004310896\_013",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
series = "Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics",
publisher = "Brill Academic Publishers",
pages = "163--179",
editor = "Edit Doron",
booktitle = "Language Contact and the Development of Modern Hebrew",
address = "هولندا",
}