Itamar Kastner
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Mutation, allomorphy and Galician clitics Open
The Galician definite article and direct object clitics exhibit allomorphy-like alternations which raise a number of questions for the morphology-phonology interface. This squib highlights inadequacies of allomorphic approaches to these al…
Prefixes and suffixes in Afroasiatic Open
How can we tell whether an agreement feature will end up as a prefix, a suffix, or a combination of exponents? Research on Afroasiatic languages has identified a number of asymmetries which can be found between prefixes and suffixes. This …
Directionality in cross-categorial derivations Open
What exactly is the relationship between the verb hammer and the noun hammer? Is one derived from the other, are both derived from a common source, and how can we tell? This article provides an overview of recent generative approaches to d…
The Open Letter: Responses and recommendations Open
Since its publication in July 2020, the Open Letter to the LSA regarding Steven Pinker has evoked many passionate reactions. The letter argued that Pinker's public statements are inconsistent with the LSA’s anti-racist values, asking to re…
Voice at the interfaces Open
This books presents the most comprehensive description and analysis to date of Hebrew morphology, with an emphasis on the verbal templates. Its aim is to develop a theory of argument structure alternations which is anchored in the syntax b…
Voice at the interfaces Open
This books presents the most comprehensive description and analysis to date of Hebrew morphology, with an emphasis on the verbal templates. Its aim is to develop a theory of argument structure alternations which is anchored in the syntax b…
Predicting semantic priming in Hebrew morphology using word embeddings (AMLaP) Open
AMLaP 2020 poster #92
Inchoatives in causative clothing Open
The “causative” template heXYiZ in Hebrew is the morphological form of verbs which are usually transitive. I discuss cases in which specific roots give rise to the labile alternation, otherwise unattested in the language. A straightforward…
Non-local contextual allomorphy: Introduction to the special issue Open
Non-local contextual allomorphy: Introduction to the
The Form of Morphemes: MEG Evidence From Masked Priming of Two Hebrew Templates Open
Studies of lexical access have benefited from comparisons between languages like English, which shows concatenative morphology, and Semitic languages showing non-concatenative morphology of roots and patterns. Morphological decomposition i…
Reflexive verbs in Hebrew: Deep unaccusativity meets lexical semantics Open
Reflexive verbs in Modern Hebrew show specific morphological marking: only one of the seven verbal templates in the language can be used for reflexives. Yet this morphological marking also appears on anticausative verbs, which have differe…
Linguistic Constraints on Statistical Word Segmentation: The Role of Consonants in Arabic and English Open
Statistical learning is often taken to lie at the heart of many cognitive tasks, including the acquisition of language. One particular task in which probabilistic models have achieved considerable success is the segmentation of speech into…
Nonactive Voice in Hebrew and Elsewhere: Between Unaccusativity and Agentivity Open
Two verbal templates in Modern Hebrew allow for any kind of verbal construction, except for a simple transitive verb. Unaccusatives, reflexives, reciprocals and unergatives that take an obligatory indirect object are all attested, but tran…