Nadav Sabar
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nadav Sabar is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1385-7916
Title
Lexical meaning as a testable hypothesis: The case of English look, see, seem and appear
Nadav Sabar
This book offers an original treatment of the lexical form look. The work is innovative in that it establishes that the Columbia School conception of an invariant meaning – hitherto found primarily in grammar – is equally operative in core vocabulary items like look and see. The upshot is that… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 75] 2018. xv, 144 pp.
Article
2019 Using big data to support meaning hypotheses for some and any Columbia School Linguistics in the 21st Century, Stern, Nancy, Ricardo Otheguy, Wallis Reid and Jaseleen Sackler (eds.), pp. 33–72 | Chapter
This paper offers an original treatment of the grammatical forms some and any. Rather than seeing them as logical quantifiers, each sign constitutes an expressive device whose invariant meaning fully accounts for its distribution in English texts. A unique methodology that relies on qualitative… read more