Hagit Borer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hagit Borer is involved.
Yearbook
ISSN 1568-1483 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9900
Title
Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell
Edited by María J. Arche, Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache and Hagit Borer
This volume presents a collection of state-of-the-art studies that illustrate recent advances in the understanding of human language, grammar design and linguistic categories. The title of the volume aims at highlighting the mark that the work of Tim Stowell has had on the field of Linguistics… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 288] 2025. xiii, 368 pp.
2025 On the origins of phrase structure Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell, Arche, María J., Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache and Hagit Borer (eds.), pp. 2–19 | Chapter
In his doctoral dissertation and subsequent work, Stowell outlined a research agenda based on replacing phrase structure rules with general universal constraints that can give rise to a constrained hierarchical structure without recourse to arbitrary statements of hierarchy and order. This… read more
2025 Chapter 15. Dims a dozen The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 303–333 | Chapter
This article seeks to account for the properties of Hebrew diminutive -
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and its F instantiation. Such account will require an understanding of gender as well as plural formation and the correspondence between syntactic/phonology and (substantive) Content. It will establish that: … read more
2013 The syntactic domain of content Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams, Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 205–248 | Article
A main motivation for relegating Word Formation to the lexicon is the fact that its output is often non-compositional. The present article, however, presents a serious challenge to the presumed contradiction between non-compositionality and syntactic combinatorial processes. The investigation of… read more
2010 The name of the adjective Adjectives: Formal analyses in syntax and semantics, Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia and Ora Matushansky (eds.), pp. 85–114 | Article
On the basis of data from English, French, Hebrew and Spanish, this paper argues that (apparent) adjectives which function as nominals belong to two distinct classes. One small class consists of true nouns that are homophonous with adjectives but are not derived from them. The other one consists of… read more
2003 15. Computing argument structure: The early grammar Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-Based, Morphology, Shimron, Joseph (ed.), pp. 321–362 | Chapter