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Galia Hatav

Department of Linguistics

Publications

A. THEORETICAL RESEARCH

Monographs

  • The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface of the Biblical Hebrew verb Forms.
    A JSS Monograph Companion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. 259 + vi
    pages.

    Reviewed by Michael Carasik, Hebrew Higher Education 22 (2020) online: https://naphhebrew.org/hhe-22-2020

  • The Semantics of Aspect and Modality; Evidence from English and Biblical Hebrew.
    Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 1997. 224 + x
    pages.

    The book has received seven reviews and notices, all of which are strongly positive (with some reservations from one reviewer). One notice by Ferdinand de Haan appeared in Language 1999 vol. 75:3, p. 623, and one in Shofar 1999 vol. 17:4, p. 171 (presumably written by the editor). One review (in Spanish) by A. Torres appeared in ArcgTeolGran 62 (1999); one by Moisés Silva appeared in Hebrew Studies (The journal of NAPH, The National Association of Professors of Hebrew) 1999, vol. 40, pp. 269-271; one by Scott B. Noegel appeared in AJS Review (The Journal of AJS, The Association for Jewish Studies) 1999, vol. xxiv No.2, pp. 370-374; one by Patrick J. Duffley appeared in Word 2000, vol. 51:1, pp. 59-63; and one by Allan S. Kaye appeared in Multilingua 2002, vol. 1:2-3, pp. 316-318.

Edited Books

  • Theoretical Hebrew Linguistics; An anthology of articles on Hebrew within the framework of Generative Grammar. (ed.), Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press. 2008. 389 pages. [In Hebrew]

    The book has received a very positive review in Sfarim, Haaretz, in the issue of September 2, 2009.

Articles in Refereed Journals

  • “Verb Phrase Secondary Predication: Biblical Hebrew as a Case Study.” (To appear) Linguistics.
  • “’Before’ clauses in Modern Hebrew.” (2016) Hebrew Linguistics 70: 59-76 [In Hebrew]
  • “Marking Discourse Topic in Biblical Hebrew – Part I.” (2013) Journal of North West Semitic Languages 39/1: 9-27
  • “Marking Discourse Topic in Biblical Hebrew – Part II.” (2013) Journal of North West Semitic Languages 39/2: 57-68
  • “Past and Future Interpretation of Wayyiqtol.” (2011). Journal of Semitic Studies 56/1: 85-109
  • “States and embedded tense interpretation in non-SOT languages.” (2010). Snippets 22, http://www.ledonline.it/snippets
  • “Relative and Absolute Tense Interpretation in Modern Hebrew.” (2010). Hebrew Studies 51: 261-285
  • ”Teaching the Biblical Hebrew Verbal System.” (2007). Higher Hebrew Education 12: 5- 52.
  • “Wayhi-Whaya” (English title: “Updating the reference-time in biblical Hebrew”). (2007). Balshanut Ivrit (Hebrew Linguistics) 59: 43-55. [In Hebrew.]
  • “The modal nature of terem in biblical Hebrew.” (2006). Hebrew Studies 47: 25-49.
  • “The deictic nature of the directives in biblical Hebrew”. (2006). Studies in Language 30:4: 733-775.
  • “Anchoring World and Time in Biblical Hebrew.” (2004). Journal of Linguistics 40: 491-526.
  • “(Free) Direct Discourse in Biblical Hebrew.” (2000). Hebrew Studies 41: 7-30.
  • “Time Movement in the Biblical Narrative.” (2000). Balshanut Ivrit (Hebrew Linguistics) 47: 63-84. [In Hebrew.]
  • “The Aspect System in English – An Attempt for a Unified Analysis.” (1993). Linguistics, 31: 209-237.
  • “Aspects, Aktionsarten and the Time-Line.” (1989). Linguistics 27/3: 487-516.
  • “Criteria for Identifying the Foreground.” (1985). Theoretical Linguistics 12, #2-3: 265-73.

Book Chapters

  • “The Temporal Interpretation of the Verbal Forms in 1Samuel 1-2.” (To appear). In Jacobus (Jackie) A Naude and Cynthia Miller-Naude (eds.), Analyses of 1Samuel. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.
  • “The Infinitive Absolute and Topicalization of Events in Biblical Hebrew.” (2017). In Adina Moshavi and Tania Notarious (eds.), Advances in Biblical Hebrew Linguistics, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. Pp. 207-229.
  • “Gnomic Perfect.” (2013). In: Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (EHLL). Geoffrey Khan (General Editor), Shmuel Bolozky, Steven E. Fassberg, Gary A. Rendsburg, Aaron D. Rubin, Ora R. Schwar Zwald, and Tamar Zewi (Associate editors), Leiden & Boston: Brill, Vol. 2: G-O, 69.
  • “Tense: Biblical Hebrew.” (2013). Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (EHLL). Geoffrey Khan (General Editor), Shmuel Bolozky, Steven E. Fassberg, Gary A. Rendsburg, Aaron D. Rubin, Ora R. SchwarZwald, and Tamar Zewi (Associate editors), Leiden & Boston: Brill, Vol. 3: P-Z, 736-740.
  • “Verb Phrase.” (2013). Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (EHLL). Geoffrey Khan (General Editor), Shmuel Bolozky, Steven E. Fassberg, Gary A. Rendsburg, Aaron D. Rubin, Ora R. Schwar Zwald, and Tamar Zewi (Associate editors), Leiden & Boston: Brill, Vol. 3: P-Z, 901-904.
  • “Bound Tenses.” (2012). Bound Tenses. In: The Oxford handbook of Tense and Aspect, Robert Binnick (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 611-37.
  • “The Modal System in Biblical Hebrew.” (2008). In Theoretical Hebrew Linguistics, G. Hatav (ed.), Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 163-191. [In Hebrew]
  • “Introduction.” 2008. In Theoretical Hebrew Linguistics, G. Hatav (ed.), Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 1-6. [In Hebrew]

Proceedings

  • “Perfectivity: A Three-Way Distinction.” (2013). In: Romano-Bohemica II; Journal for Central European Studies, Sorin Paliga (ed.), 89-108.
  • “Four Modes of Discourse in Literary Prose.” (1998). Workshop Proceedings on Non-Narrative Discourse, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Linguistics, Austin, Texas, 1-19.
  • “Coordination and the interpretation of situation types.” (1997). Proceedings of The Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL) #4. Edited by: Shuly Winter and Edit Doron. 55-90.

Reviews

  • Rogland, Max, Alleged non-past uses of qatal in classical Hebrew. (2004). Hebrew Studies 45: 302-304.
  • Lehmann, Winfred P., Esther Raizen, and Helen-Jo Jaskusz Hewitt, Biblical Hebrew: An Analytical Introduction; Jacques B. Doukhan, Hebrew for Theologians. A comparative review, (2000), Journal of Hebrew Scriptures. An Electronic Journal
    http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/jhs-article.html#vol3. Review #4.
  • Smith,Carlota S. The Parameter of Aspect (Second Edition). (2000). Pragmatics and Cognition 8(2): 451-3.
  • Rubinstein, Eliezer, Syntax and Semantics; Studies in Biblical and Modern Hebrew. (2001). The Journal of the American Oriental Society 121.1: 30-1.In Hebrew it appeared in Haaretz (2000), # 408.
  • Hoye, Leo, Adverbs and Modality in English. (1999). Pragmatics & Cognition 7: 214-219.
  • Bolozky, Shmuel, 501 Hebrew verbs. (1997). Shofar 15:4. In Hebrew appeared in Ha’aretz, April 2 1997.
  • Sáenz-Bandillos, Angel, A History of the Hebrew Language. (1996). Hebrew Studies 37: 131-3.

 

B. APPLIED MATERIAL AND COURSEWARE

Books

Sole Author
  • The Compound. (1984). In Eshkol series, headed by O. Raz’el, The Center for Educational Technology, Ramat-Aviv. [In Hebrew].
Co-author
  • Toam – Reading Comprehension; The Course-Ware Structure, (1986). With O. Raz’el & D. Levinson, The Center of Educational Technology, Ramat-Aviv. [In Hebrew].
  • Conjunctions, Subordinations & Pronouns. (1985). With O. Raz’el. In the series Eshkol, headed by O. Raz’el, The Center for Educational Technology, Ramat-Aviv. [In
    Hebrew].
  • Roots and Word-Patterns. (1984). With Z. Radiano and O. Raz’el. In the series Eshkol, headed by O. Raz’el, The Center for Educational Technology, Ramat-Aviv. [In
    Hebrew]
Work in Progress
  • “Secondary Predication in Biblical Hebrew”
  • “The aspect system of Akan” (In collaboration with James Essegbey)
  • “Restrictive and non-restrictive definite articles in language”
  • “Counterfactuals in Biblical and Modern Hebrew”