Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev*

The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions

Edited by Zohar Livnat, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar & Galia Hirsch

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 316] 2020. | edited volume

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

Elena Even-Simkin & Yishai Tobin

Subjects English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Phonology | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics

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

Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence

Edited by Bob de Jonge & Yishai Tobin

Subjects Functional linguistics | Phonology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 64] 2011. vi, 299 pp. | edited volume

Expressing the Same by the Different: The subjunctive vs the indicative in French

Igor Dreer

Subjects Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 59] 2007. xxx, 272 pp. | monograph

Between Grammar and Lexicon

Edited by Ellen Contini-Morava & Yishai Tobin

Subjects Semantics | Syntax

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 183] 2000. xxxii, 365 pp. | edited volume

Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis

Edited by Edna Andrews & Yishai Tobin

Subjects Functional linguistics | Semantics | Semiotics | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 43] 1996. xxviii, 432 pp. | edited volume

Shor, Leon, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar & Zohar Livnat 2026 Turn-initial ki ‘because’-clauses as a rhetorical responsive practice in Hebrew Facebook comments

Keywords: causal clause | ki ‘because’ | structural latency | co-construction | why question | readers’ comments | Facebook | irony | Modern Hebrew

Pragmatics | Online First Publication, 27 pp. | article

Shor, Leon 2024 Eye closures in spoken Hebrew: Conversational functions and meaning semiosis

Keywords: spoken Hebrew | conversational facial gesture | eye closure | disengagement | hedging | negation | totality | concentration

Pragmatics 35:4 pp. 604–627 | article

Shukrun-Nagar, Pnina & Zohar Livnat 2025 Specified compliments in comments to politicians’ Facebook posts: Champion, loser, or both?

Keywords: compliments | irony | condemnation | readers’ comments | Facebook

Pragmatics & Cognition 31:2 pp. 339–366 | article

Bardenstein, Ruti 2023 The cyclic nature of negation: From implicit to explicit: The case of Hebrew Bilti (‘not’)

Keywords: grammaticalization | polyfunctionality | Jespersen’s Cycle | negation | privative | construction

Pragmatics 34:1 pp. 28–54 | article | open access

Shukrun-Nagar, Pnina & Galia Hirsch 2023 What kind of laughter?: The triple function of “Hhh” as a contempt, intention, and interpretation marker

Keywords: graphic laughter marker | readers’ comments | Facebook | humor | irony | contempt marker | intention marker | interpretation marker

Pragmatics 35:2 pp. 264–293 | article

Henkin, Roni 2023 Intergenerational interviews in Negev Arabic: Negotiating lexical, discursive and cultural gaps

Keywords: intergenerational interviews | communication strategies | conversational repair | Negev Arabic | lexical gaps | other-initiated repair | metalinguistic questions | candidate understanding | participant (referent-)tracking | negotiation of meaning

Pragmatics 33:4 pp. 532–558 | article | open access

Henkin, Roni & Letizia Cerqueglini 2022 Spatial prepositions min and ʕan in Traditional Negev Arabic

Keywords: spatial prepositions | Source domain | Figure-Ground relations | proto-scene | semantic maps | ablative | perlative | partitive | allative | separative | boundary-crossing | multiple axis scenes | Traditional Negev Arabic | Classical Arabic | relexification

Studies in Language 47:2 pp. 243–290 | article

Bardenstein, Ruti 2022 Constructionalized rhetorical questions from negatively biased to negation polarity: The case of Hebrew lo mi yodea ma

Keywords: chunking | constructionalization | grammaticalization | mitigation | negatively biased | npi | rhetorical questions

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 23:1 pp. 111–145 | article

Henkin, Roni 2020 Sociolinguistics of Modern Hebrew

In: Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax, Berman, Ruth A., Elitzur Dattner, Eitan Grossman, Bracha Nir & Yael Reshef (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 210] pp. 51–96

Mor, Uri 2020 Prescriptive activity in Modern Hebrew

In: Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax, Berman, Ruth A., Elitzur Dattner, Eitan Grossman, Bracha Nir & Yael Reshef (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 210] p. 97

Shukrun-Nagar, Pnina 2020 “Hero, genius, king and Messiah”: Ironic echoing in pro-ethos and anti-ethos readers’ comments on Facebook posts

Keywords: irony | ironic echoes/echoing | ethos | face | Facebook | multi-stage echoes | on-line readers’ comments | accusation | condemnation | compliment

In: The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions, Livnat, Zohar, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar & Galia Hirsch (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 316] pp. 59–82

Livnat, Zohar, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar & Galia Hirsch 2020 Introduction

In: The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions, Livnat, Zohar, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar & Galia Hirsch (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 316] pp. 1–16

Livnat, Zohar, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar & Galia Hirsch 2020 The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions

In: The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions, Livnat, Zohar, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar & Galia Hirsch (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 316]

Cohen-Achdut, Miri 2020 Dialogic construction of authority in Hebrew women’s writing from the 19th century

Keywords: reliance quotations | refutation quotations | constructing authority | women’s writing

Language and Dialogue 10:3 pp. 422–442 | article

Meyerhoff, Miriam, Maya Ravindranath Abtahian, Roey J. Gafter, Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan, Peter Keegan & Jeanette King 2021 Styles, standards and meaning: Issues in the globalisation of sociolinguistics

Keywords: style variation | language standards | minority languages | sociolinguistic theory | superposed variety | indicators | markers | stereotypes

Language Ecology 4:1 pp. 1–16 | introduction

Gafter, Roey J. 2021 Stylistic variation in Hebrew reading tasks: Methodological and theoretical insights

Keywords: reading tasks | Modern Hebrew | stylistic variation | language ideologies | standardness

Language Ecology 4:1 pp. 39–54 | article

Shukrun-Nagar, Pnina 2019 Individual moral otherness as a means to underscore sectoral otherness

Keywords: moral otherness | sectoral otherness | religious minorities | media | news discourse | implicatures | discursive strategies | Haredi(m) | ultra-Orthodox | online comments

Journal of Language and Politics 18:2 pp. 161–183 | article

Milani, Tommaso M., Erez Levon, Roey J. Gafter & Iair G. Or 2018 Tel Aviv as a space of affirmation versus transformation: Language, citizenship, and the politics of sexuality in Israel

Keywords: affect | affirmation | body | intimate citizenship | Israel | queer | transformation

Linguistic Landscape 4:3 pp. 278–297 | article

Asscher, Omri 2017 A case for an integrated approach to the mediation of national literature: Translated Hebrew literature in the United States in the 1970s and 2000s

Keywords: ideological mediation | national literature | translation and ideology | Hebrew literature | American Jewry | Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Translation and Interpreting Studies 12:1 pp. 24–48 | article

Shukrun-Nagar, Pnina 2013 Disputing while covering a dispute on television news: Discursive devices and their interpretation by viewers

Keywords: discursive devices | otherness | questionnaires | covert messages | dispute | news discourse | ultra-Orthodox (Haredim)

Language and Dialogue 3:2 pp. 208–233 | article

Paltiel-Gedalyovich, Leah R. 2011 Adult response uniformity distinguishes semantics from pragmatics: Implications for child language

In: Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics, Meibauer, Jörg & Markus Steinbach (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 175] pp. 101–127

Enbe, Claudia & Yishai Tobin 2011 Phonology as human behavior: The prosody of normal and pathological speech of Buenos Aires Spanish

In: Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence, de Jonge, Bob & Yishai Tobin (eds.) [Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 64] pp. 197–218

Tobin, Yishai 2011 Phonology as human behavior from an evolutionary point of view

In: Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence, de Jonge, Bob & Yishai Tobin (eds.) [Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 64] pp. 169–196

Even-Simkin, Elena & 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

In: Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence, de Jonge, Bob & Yishai Tobin (eds.) [Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 64] pp. 45–82

Dreer, Igor 2011 The distribution of linguistic forms and textual structure: Two sign-oriented approaches to the textual analysis of the use of the French Indicative and Subjunctive

In: Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence, de Jonge, Bob & Yishai Tobin (eds.) [Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 64] pp. 17–44

Schaeffer, Jeannette & Dorit Ben Shalom 2008 On child subjects in a partially pro-drop language

In: Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics, Armon-Lotem, Sharon, Gabi Danon & Susan Rothstein (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 134] pp. 245–266

Tabak, Iris & Brian J. Reiser 2008 Software-realized inquiry support for cultivating a disciplinary stance

Keywords: computer-based learning environments | discipline-specific | content | representation | evolution | inquiry | socio-cultural environment | science | software design

Pragmatics & Cognition 16:2 pp. 307–355 | article

Erteschik-Shir, Nomi & Tova Rapoport 2008 Projecting argument structure: The grammar of hitting and breaking revisited

In: Argument Structure, Reuland, Eric J., Tanmoy Bhattacharya & Giorgos Spathas (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 108] pp. 17–35

Borg, Alexander 2008 Towards a history and typology of color categorization in colloquial Arabic

In: Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling, MacLaury, Robert E., Galina V. Paramei & Don Dedrick (eds.)  pp. 263–293 | open access

Tobin, Yishai 2008 Hebrew. Gender switch in Modern Hebrew

In: Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 1, Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 9] pp. 177–198

Amir, Sharon, Tali Yitzhaki-Verner & Dan Bar-On 2015 "The Recruited Identity": The Influence of the Intifada on the Perception of the Peace Process From the Standpoint of the Individual

Journal of Narrative and Life History 6:3 pp. 193–223 | article

Erteschik-Shir, Nomi 1992 Focus Structure and Predication: The Case of Negative Wh-Questions

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 7:1 pp. 35–51 | article

Tobin, Yishai 1984 Language Teachers Should Rush in Where Good Translators Fear to Tread

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 65:1 pp. 79–91 | article

Tobin, Yishai 1981 Participation Systems, Prepositions and Deep Structure Case as Decoding Devices for Modern Hebrew

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 54:1 pp. 45–63 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.