@inbook {3126767,
	title = {Syntactic Reanalysis and Semantic Reanalysis: A study of the semantic shift of<em> \&$\#$39;ilmale</em> in Babylonian Hebrew and Aramaic},
	booktitle = {Shay le-Moshe},
	year = {2022},
	pages = {129-159},
	publisher = {Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities},
	organization = {Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities},
	address = {Jerusalem},
	abstract = {This paper proposes a formal definition of reanalysis, while emphasizing the importance of the distinction between two different kinds of reanalysis: those in which the change is confined to the grammatical level, and those in which it is confined to the semantic level. After tracing the history of a negative counterfactual conditional marker in Hebrew and Aramaic which underwent both syntactic and semantic reanalyses, the paper assesses the concept of reanalysis with focus on the following questions: Is reanalysis a single, clearly-defined phenomenon, and if so, what is its nature? Is it merely a descriptive label for a certain observable state of affairs, or does it explain diachronic changes? Alternatively, perhaps it is a theoretical constraint, a theoretical requirement that linguistic change must be associated with specific environments where reanalysis can take place? A detailed analysis of the marker and its evolution yields the following broad hypothesis: Reanalysis of a linguistic form does not change the truth conditions of the proposition that contains it, regardless of whether the reanalysis is on the grammatical level or on the semantic level.},
	author = {Tov, Emanuel}
}
