📄 Chapter 3: Minimalist assumptions on negation in Biblical Hebrew syntax

What it is about

Not read: the PDF could not be fetched. From the title: a chapter applying Chomsky's Minimalist Program to negation in Biblical Hebrew — where the negators sit in the clause structure (a Negation phrase above the verb), and how the choice among לֹא, אַל, אֵין and בְּלִי/בִּלְתִּי relates to the verb form and to mood. Check against the text.

For Mova

• I1. (to check) Negator–mood table from our trees: count לֹא with yiqtol (prohibitive or future), אַל with jussive, אֵין with verbless or participle clauses, בִּלְתִּי with infinitive; deviations are either errors in MACULA's Type or real exceptions to list.
• I2. Use the table in the neg-polarity rule: a negated jussive with אַל is a prohibition (act = directive), לֹא + yiqtol in law is an apodictic prohibition, אֵין is an existential denial.

I1 is a measure on the Torah trees and a section in languages/hbo/05-pronouns-particles.md (negatives) and 08-syntax.md (negation); I2 refines neg-polarity and law3 in tools/macula/src/prag.rs. Re-read once the PDF is in.

Topics🕎 Hebrew & Aramaic🐪 Semitic languages📐 Syntax & grammar formalisms

Cite

Cite as Fanie Snyman. 2004. Chapter 3: Minimalist assumptions on negation in Biblical Hebrew syntax. Acta Academica Critical views on society culture and politics.

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.38140/aa.v0i3.865

@inproceedings{snyman2004chapter,
  title = {{Chapter 3: Minimalist assumptions on negation in Biblical Hebrew syntax}},
  author = {Fanie Snyman},
  booktitle = {Acta Academica Critical views on society culture and politics},
  year = {2004},
  doi = {10.38140/aa.v0i3.865},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.38140/aa.v0i3.865}
}

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