Galia Hatav

List of John Benjamins publications in which Galia Hatav is involved.

Title

The Semantics of Aspect and Modality: Evidence from English and Biblical Hebrew

Galia Hatav

“The semantics of aspect and modality” will be of interest both to linguists working on temporality, as a general phenomenon in language, and Hebraists investigating the semantics of the verbal forms in biblical Hebrew.Tense, aspect and modality are among the most challenging discussed areas of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 34] 1997. x, 224 pp.

Articles

Hatav, Galia 2006 The deictic nature of the directives in Biblical Hebrew Studies in Language 30:4, pp. 733–775 | Article

Biblical Hebrew has three specific verb forms for performing directive speech-acts such as commands and requests. Hebraists (e.g., Bendavid 1967) observe that two other forms are also used for this purpose, in addition to other uses.  In Hatav (1997), I show that those two forms are general… read more

Hatav, Galia 2000 Review of Smith (1997): The Parameter of Aspect Pragmatics & Cognition 8:2, pp. 451–453 | Review

Hatav, Galia 1999 Review of Hoye (1997): Adverbs and Modality in English Pragmatics & Cognition 7:1, pp. 214–219 | Review