Ruti Bardenstein
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ruti Bardenstein is involved.
Articles
2024 The cyclic nature of negation: From implicit to explicit: The case of Hebrew Bilti (‘not’) Pragmatics 34:1, pp. 28–54 | Article
The Hebrew negation adverbial bilti ‘not’ seems to function very differently in Biblical Hebrew than it does in Contemporary Hebrew. This paper addresses this difference and discusses its evolution. The main question addressed in this paper is: How has Hebrew bilti, originally an exceptive… read more
2022 Constructionalized rhetorical questions from negatively biased to negation polarity: The case of Hebrew lo mi yodea ma Journal of Historical Pragmatics 23:1, pp. 111–145 | Article
How does a rhetorical question become an adverbial npi down-toner? This paper focusses on a specific type of grammaticalization process: the grammaticalization of a rhetorical construction à la
Goldberg (1995), namely, a “constructionalized rhetorical question” (Bardenstein 2018) which… read more
2022 The missing link between truth and intensification Studies in Language 46:2, pp. 285–322 | Article
Truth markers commonly evolve into intensifiers (Heine & Kuteva 2002), but we here argue that this shift is only indirect, and a counter-loosening phase necessarily mediates between truth marking and intensification. Counter-looseners instruct the addressee to avoid (or rather, constrain) the… read more