@book {3090201, title = {Hebrew and Aramaic in the Middle Ages \– Language Studies and Grammatical Thought Hebrew and Aramaic in the Middle Ages \– Language Studies and Grammatical Thought}, year = {2020}, publisher = {The Academy of Hebrew Language}, organization = {The Academy of Hebrew Language}, address = {Jerusalem:}, author = {Bar-Asher Siegal, Elitzur A. and Yaakov D.} } @book {3090202, title = {Linguistic and philological studies in Hebrew and Aramaic}, year = {2020}, publisher = {The Academy of Hebrew Language}, organization = {The Academy of Hebrew Language}, address = {Jerusalem}, author = {Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal} } @book {Elitzur_Bar-Asher_Siegal_75842374, title = {The NP-strategy for Expressing Reciprocity}, series = {Typological Studies in Language}, year = {2020}, note = {

This book was awarded the 1st prize of the Polonsky Prizes for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines 2022.


Reviews
Staps, Camil. Review of The NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity: typology, history, syntax and semantics Bibliotheca Orientalis 77 (2020): 318 - 322

R{\'a}kosi, Gy{\"o}rgy. Review of Bar-Asher Siegal (2020): The NP-strategy for Expressing Reciprocity: Typology, History, Syntax and Semantics, Journal of Historical Linguistics, 8 pages (Available online: 06 February 2023)\ https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/jhl.22017.rak

}, abstract = {

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the syntax and semantics of a single linguistic phenomenon {\textendash} the NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity {\textendash} in synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. It challenges the assumption common in the typological, syntactic, and semantic literature, namely that so-called reciprocal constructions encode symmetric relations. Instead, they are analyzed as constructions encoding unspecified relations. In effect, it provides a new proposal for the truth-conditional semantics of these constructions. More broadly, this book introduces new ways of bringing together historical linguistics and formal semantics, demonstrating how, on the one hand, the inclusion of historical data concerning the sources of reciprocal constructions enriches their synchronic analysis; and how, on the other hand, an analysis of the syntax and the semantics of these constructions serves as a key for understanding their historical origins.

}, isbn = {9789027204783}, issn = {0167-7373}, doi = {10.1075/tsl.127}, url = {http://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.127}, author = {Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal} } @book {3090214, title = {Perspectives on Causation: Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 2017 Workshop}, year = {2020}, pages = {484}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, abstract = {

This book explores relationships and maps out intersections between discussions on causation in three scientific disciplines: linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. The book is organized in five thematic parts, investigating connections between philosophical and linguistic studies of causation; presenting novel methodologies for studying the representation of causation; tackling central issues in syntactic and semantic representation of causal relations; and introducing recent advances in philosophical thinking on causation.

Beyond its thematic organization, readers will find several recurring topics throughout this book, such as the attempt to reduce causality to other non-causal terms; causal pluralism vs. one all-encompassing account for causation; causal relations pertaining to the mental as opposed to the physical realm, and more.

This collection also lays the foundation for questioning whether it is possible to evaluate available philosophical approaches to causation against the variety of linguistic phenomena ranging across diverse lexical and grammatical items, such as bound morphemes, prepositions, connectives, and verbs. Above all, it lays the groundwork for considering whether the fruits of the psychological-cognitive study of the perception of causal relations may contribute to linguistic and philosophical studies, and whether insights from linguistics can benefit the other two disciplines.

}, url = {https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-34308-8}, author = {Bar-Asher Siegal EA and Boneh N.~} } @book {3092219, title = {Studies in Mishnaic Hebrew and Related Fields: Proceedings of the Yale Symposium on Mishnaic Hebrew, May 2014.}, year = {2017}, pages = {422}, publisher = {The Hebrew Language Academy Press}, organization = {The Hebrew Language Academy Press}, address = {New Haven-Jerusalem}, url = {https://www.magnespress.co.il/book/Studies_in_Mishnaic_Hebrew_and_Related_Fields-5866}, author = {Bar-Asher Siegal EA and Koller A.} } @book {RN993, title = {Introduction to the Grammar of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, 2nd, Revised and Extended Edition}, year = {2016}, pages = {388}, publisher = {Ugarit-Verlag}, organization = {Ugarit-Verlag}, type = {Book}, edition = {2}, address = {M{\"u}nster}, author = {Bar-Asher Siegal, Elitzur A} }