Elena Even-Simkin

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elena Even-Simkin is involved.

Title

The Regularity of the 'Irregular' Verbs and Nouns in English

Elena Even-Simkin and Yishai Tobin

This volume presents an in-depth study of the so-called irregular Past Tense (sing/sang) and Noun Plural (foot/feet) forms with Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in English demonstrating that they possess both a fixed phonological and semantic regularity. The innovative sign-oriented analysis and… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 66] 2013. xvii, 273 pp.

Article

Even-Simkin, Elena and Yishai Tobin 2011 Semantic regularities of the so-called irregular Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) Nominal (umlaut) and Verbal (ablaut) forms in Old and Modern English Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence, Jonge, Bob de and Yishai Tobin (eds.), pp. 45–82 | Article

How does one cope, systematically, with the apparent chaos of the modern world? This question was being asked in a variety of fields, and the replies which Saussure gives – that you cannot hope to attain an absolute or Godlike view of things but must choose a perspective, and that within this… read more