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.

Ideas

• 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.

For Mova

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.

Cite

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 = {Snyman, Fanie},
  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}
}