Work

‘Between’ constructions in Biblical Hebrew

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: Unlike its English counterpartbetween, the Biblical Hebrew (BH) prepositionbêndoes not allow a conjoined object (between A and B), but it uses additional prepositions in two typologically unusual patterns:bên A wə-bên B‘between A and-between B’ andbên A lə-B‘between A to-B’. This article shows that these two patterns, and their equivalence with the English one, can be accounted for semantically, on the basis of the underlying filter behaviour of the ‘betweenness’ meaning.

Source: Linguistics in the Netherlands

DOI: 10.1075/avt.00055.zwa

Author: Joost Zwarts

Institution: Utrecht University

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: European Commission, Universiteit Utrecht, H2020 European Research Council

Awards: G434337789, Forests and Trees: the Formal Semantics of Collective Categorization