Yael Greenberg. Linguistics
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I am a linguist, working at the English literature and linguistics department, at Bar Ilan University.
My main reserach areas are formal semantics and the semantics-pragmatics interface.
Among other things, I have worked on the following research topics:
The semantics and pragmatics of alternative-sensitive expressions (exclusives, additives, scalars, incrementals etc.), their interaction with prosodical patterns, and the parameters along which they vary, both inter- and intra-linguistically.
The linguistic encoding of scales and the relationship between scalar particles and degree-based / gradability-related constructions
The linguistic encoding of different kinds of approximation, intensification, and vagueness.
Metalinguistic, discourse-based and speech-act related phenomena
THe linguistic encoding of expectations and 'normality' (as with generics and various other modal constructions), as well as with their violations (as in 'mirative' constructions and expressions)
Hebrew linguistics